| Sean Finney on Fri, 2 Aug 2002 19:03:07 -0400 |
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On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 03:19:27PM -0400, Fred K Ollinger wrote: > as debian supports rpm. You can build a rpm is debian source isn't > available then do > > alien package.rpm > > to generate a debian package. I have done this to get packages that > weren't available for debian, then I would put them in my repository so I > could apt-get the package on all my boxes. just to add a little to that--i'm a student admin at my school for the cs dept, and over the past semester i've convinced the powers that be that debian is the way to go in our linux based robotics/graphics lab. their original worry was that some of the software we need (maya, for example) wasn't 'certified' to run on any other linux than redhat, and thus only came in rpm packages. so i took the rpm packages, used alien to debianize them, and installed them with no fuss. they even show up in their own section in dselect, so you can keep an eye on your foreign packages. actually, i might argue that the install was less of a hassle on debian than on redhat, because we had to 'downgrade' our rh compilers and libraries to get our maya plugins to work (yeah, remember all that fuss a while back about redhat and development versions of compilers in their standard release?). it worked right from the start with debian :) --sean Attachment:
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