On March 2, 2003 12:40 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > 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?
You will most likely have to compile it then. There should be a file called README or INSTALL in that package somewhere. tar.gz is a compressed archive archive file similar to .zip so you will need to uncompress it first. Leo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
