deb package format

I've been on a few software sites lately where the owner of the site is a software author. There seems to be a growing trend for linux package developers to provide packages in tarball and rpm format. The two sites I have in mind are the Tkrat (a mail client for X) and Rhide (Turbo C like

Re: deb package format

I noticed the same thing too. I can't find the SANE scanner driver or Enlightenment Binaries and afew other things that I forget in.deb Only RPM. :(.. Whenever I try to install/debianize with Alien, it says /usr/bin/checkbash: tempfile: command not found /usr/bin/checkbash: $TMP:

Re: deb package format

Timothy M. Hospedales wrote: I noticed the same thing too. I can't find the SANE scanner driver or Enlightenment Binaries and afew other things that I forget in.deb Only RPM. :(.. Whenever I try to install/debianize with Alien, it says /usr/bin/checkbash: tempfile: command not