On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Try unpacking the package, tarring up the result, and moving it to the
> slackware system that way. If it doesn't work, you might have to
> run autoconfig and build it from source under slackware.
>
> Be sure the /var/lib/dpkg directory gets bootstrapped with something
> sensible.
>
Isn't there a non-debian tarball of dpkg somewhere? I can never remember
where it is kept, but I remember Christoph used it as the starting point
for his RedHat conversions. I would assume that it is the best starting
point for installing Debian on "foriegn" machines.
Luck,
Dwarf
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