> Kent West wrote: > > Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > > > >>> Kent West wrote: > >>> > >>> But > >>> natively, Debian doesn't use the .rpm format > >>> (although it can in many cases with the "alien" package). > >>> > >> > >> Thanks a lot, Kent. A friend of mine told me Debian takes Red Hat drivers > >> and to install it as simply as: rpm -ivh package_name. This must be > >> news for > >> you, so maybe I, through my friend, am contributing something. :o) > >> > >> > > > > Wow! You're right; I didn't know about the rpm command being on Debian. > > But sure enough, it's on my box, and the man page says indicates that > > it'll install rpms. > > > > The man page is lying. rpm is there to be used by alien and to build > rpms, it can't install packages because the rpm package database doesn't > exist. If you try to create an rpm package database in order to get it > to work, don't expect your system to stay unbroken for long.
I guess you are right. I tried today to install as a root using rpm, and I got the reply you say: "database doesn't exist". Is alien in the distribution of Debian or should I grab it apart? I think I'll have a look. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
