----- Original Message ----- From: "mdevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 2:26 PM Subject: Re: Making a java 1.4.1 deb
<snip> >>Yeah, It is a bit dissapointing that you can get rpms much earlier than >>debs. >> >>It seems as though you are just better installing directly form the Sun >>site and maintaining it yourself. I dont' see how using the rpm and >>Alien really improves from this situation. >> >>Cheers. >>Mark. Well if you install the package from sun, the debian tools (apt-*;dpkg) won't know of the existance of the packages. Alienizing them and using the resulting deb to install will make the system aware of them. I would use alien to let the system know of them. Or apt-get install checkinstall the system -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
