> On March 2, 2003 08:03 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > 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. > > I've never had much luck installing anything with alien. Unless it's > something trivial, it will usually be broken in some way after > install..
Any suggestions, then? I have been able to get the drivers in a .tar.gz compressed file they say generically is for Linux, not what distribution. Guess I'll have to find what to do with them. Thanks. Teilhard Knight The Extraterrestrial Who ate my sandwich? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
