Hi there, I downloaded some archives which I'm trying to install:
1) hj-alpha3_tar.Z (sun's hotjava) which I somehow thought was for linux-i386, and now I realized it would only run on solaris. The problem with it though, is that it's "_tar.Z", instead of ".tar.Z". So, what I did was just rename it: "hj-alpha3.tar.gz" and then run: alien -d hj-alpha3.tar.gz ok, I know there's nothing to do with it under linux, but that's not the issue, the issue is that instead of obtaining a .deb, the result was just as in case number 2. 2) Scriptum-1_1_7b-linux-elf-static.tgz and I ran: alien --to -debian Scriptum-1_1_7b-linux.elf-static.tgz and, while I was expecting a .deb result, where I got was directory tree on / (ie. /scriptum..... which was the same as with hj-alpha3...) Now, if I try to run it under an xterm (/scriptum-1-1-7b-linux-elf- static/debian/tmp/bin/scriptum), I get the following: Scriptum: 1.1.7 (Linux 1.3.X)... and then three dialog boxes: lib.main.WARNING: Message not found Sorry, can't find resource file 'Scriptum'! message :1: Scriptum error: Main file not supplied lib.main.ERROR: Message not found Assertion failed (pasedFiles != ((void*)0)). parser/scrplex.l:296 3) papyrus-1.1.1.bin.ELF.static.tar.gz this one seems to work ok as far as alien is concerned: alien -d papyrus-1.1.1.bin.ELF.static.tar.gz and I get a papyrus-etc.deb file then I run dpkg: dpkg -i papyrus-etc.deb and seems to work. On the xterm, I just type: papyrus and get the following line: papyrus: can't load library ´libXmu.so.6´ Now, that library is indeed in /usr/X11R6/lib, and there's also a link of it (libXmu.so.6 -> libXp.so.6.2)... someone told me to use ldconfig, and I did run ldconfig (what is it supposed to do? Actually nothing in my case). Can anyone help with all or part of these problems, please? PS. I'm using Debian 2.0 -------------------------------------------------- El hombre-masa actual es, en efecto, un primitivo, que por los bastidores se ha deslizado en el viejo escenario de la civilización. Ortega y Gasset - La Rebelión de las Masas. -------------------------------------------------- Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED]