Horacio M.G. wrote: > Do you mean you converted it to a .deb package just by: > alien -d scriptum...tgz ??? I've done it yet again and it happened > all over again: no .deb package, and a tree directory right in / ( > /scriptum...). I couldn't use dpkg since there was no .deb to use > with. If "alien -d papyrus...tar.gz" had not generated a > papyrus...deb package, I would think there's an implicit installation > procedure with the "-d" option in alien (may be not with a ".tar.gz" > but with a ".tgz"?).
Please send me a cxomplete transcript. Yes, I converted it with no problem and no -d does not do automatic installs. -- see shy jo
