On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 06:37:46PM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: >Ok, I'm a new Dweebian^WDebian user; and I am wondering how experienced >users deal with .rpms and non-.deb'ed software. >since the stuff on the debian mirrors is commonly months behind the latest >version (or maybe you're testing alpha versions of a project); what do you >do if there is a .rpm (or even just a .tgz) for a package you might already >have installed with dpkg? Install to ~/ somewhere > >do you just install with RPM, or build & install from source; and >1. hope your installation doesn't break something in the Debian arrangement; >or >2. that it won't be overwritten by your next apt-get upgrade (since dpkg >doesn't know you have this shiny new version in place of the old one). > >do you convert the .rpm to a .deb with alien; and hope nothing breaks? > >make a .deb package yourself, taking a lot of time (which others will have >to duplicate as well, since you aren't a debian package contributor and have >no desire to be one). > >Here at Real-Time, we build .rpms for everything; especially custom >packages. Bob & Nate can build rpms from scratch faster than you'd believe. >:) this is not the course I want to follow as a single-workstation home >user, however. > >Carl Soderstrom >-- >Network Engineer >Real-Time Enterprises >(952) 943-8700 >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Ben Lutgens cell: 612.670.4789 telnet bofh.jive.org 666 Sistina Software Inc. work: 612.379.5941 System Administrator http://www.sistina.com/ Sistina is hiring, see http:/www.sistina.com/Pages/jobs.html for details -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010212/70e3ccbb/attachment.pgp