On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 08:03:49PM +0000, Adam J Beavan wrote:
> Hi
>
> Trying to install a downloaded evaluation copy of Win4Lin
> on my debian system version 2.2.17...
> The script install-win4lin.sh runs through OK until it needs
> to install the rpm package Win4Lin-5.1.0ga-1.i386.rpm...
> I get the following error....
>
> from rpm -i Win4Lin-5.1.0ga-1.i386.rpm
>
> error: failed dependencies:
> /bin/sh is needed by Win4Lin-5.1.0ga-1
>
> Have tried using alien which builds a debian package which I
> can subsequently install, but it is not complete because
> /etc/defaults/merge has not been created and this cause the
> install to fail...
>
> Any help on this one would be great!!!!
>
> Thanks
>
> adam
This was answered some time ago on one of the Win4Lin mailing lists;
if you run W4L you should consider subscribing to one or more of
these. Unfortunately, at the present, Netraverse has dropped direct
support for Debian :(. Fortunately it's not too difficult to install
it anyway :). So here are the steps that worked for me (some of these
you may have done already):
1. Download the .rpm Win4Lin-5.1.1.0ga-1.i386.rpm
2. Convert to .deb:
alien -d Win4Lin-5.1.1.0ga-1.i386.rpm
3. dpkg -i win4lin_5.1.0ga-2_i386.deb
4. Go to /opt/win4lin, run ./postinst_rpm.sh as root
5. Do license stuff
Step 4 is probably the one you're missing.
There are other ways to do the installation (eg, rpm --nodeps ...) but
I haven't tried them and don't know what other effects they might
have. As always, YMMV.
HTH & HAND
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