Re: tar.gz to debian packages

2002-09-24 Thread Marcio Roberto Teixeira
On Tue 24 Sep 2002 13:38:14 +0200 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Hi. > i use yaprimaxgui & pxscan to get my Primax Direct 9600 scanner working. (sane >doesn't provide a backend for this type just yet). > Anyway, no problem, as i found the mentioned packages. Both package

Re: tar.gz to debian packages

2002-09-24 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 24 September 2002, 02:40 PM +0100): > >Actually, there's an easier way: > >apt-get checkinstall > >checkinstall is run as root after you've done your ./configure and make, > >and in place of the make install command. It creates a .deb

Re: tar.gz to debian packages

2002-09-24 Thread iain d broadfoot
> Actually, there's an easier way: > apt-get checkinstall > checkinstall is run as root after you've done your ./configure and make, > and in place of the make install command. It creates a .deb file and > also installs it for you. Be sure to read the man page for it -- there's > a lot of opti

Re: tar.gz to debian packages

2002-09-24 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 24 September 2002, 11:29 AM +): > Hi, > > i use yaprimaxgui & pxscan to get my Primax Direct 9600 scanner working. > (sane doesn't provide a backend for this type just yet). Anyway, no problem, > as i found the mentioned packages.

Re: tar.gz and dpkg/apt

2000-09-12 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Deim Agoston, > How can I tell the apt and/or dpkg that I have an MTA installed > (postfix2531) but not from deb package (it was tar.gz). Now everytime > I install or remove something it tells me that the services which depends > on an MTA won't work. And another question. Where can I fi

Re: tar.gz and dpkg/apt

2000-09-12 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 07:55:45PM +0200, Deim Agoston wrote: > Hello ! > > How can I tell the apt and/or dpkg that I have an MTA installed > (postfix2531) but not from deb package (it was tar.gz). Now everytime > I install or remove something it tells me that the services which depends > on a

RE: tar.gz and dpkg/apt

2000-09-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 12-Sep-2000 Deim Agoston wrote: > Hello ! > > How can I tell the apt and/or dpkg that I have an MTA installed > (postfix2531) but not from deb package (it was tar.gz). Now everytime > I install or remove something it tells me that the services which depends > on an MTA won't work. And anot

Re: TAR.GZ

1999-07-02 Thread Sami Dalouche
Can you type file GUILGNL0.GZ (be sure you have the package file) and see the output. You should get : /tmp/gwget_0.3.2.orig.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Sun Jun 20 21:37:21 1999, max compression, os: Unix or something similar. On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 10:56:04PM +0200

Re: TAR.GZ

1999-07-01 Thread G. Crimp
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 10:56:04PM +0200, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > Hi, > > I've downloaded GUILGNL0.GZ (WP8 language module). > Now I want to try to extract it. > I've tried, tar -xzvf .., and gunzip . > In both cases I got the message: not a gzip format. > How is this

Re: TAR.GZ

1999-07-01 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 01-Jul-99 Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've downloaded GUILGNL0.GZ (WP8 language module). > > Now I want to try to extract it. > > I've tried, tar -xzvf .., and gunzip . > > In both cases I got the message: not a gzip

Re: TAR.GZ

1999-07-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > I've downloaded GUILGNL0.GZ (WP8 language module). > Now I want to try to extract it. > I've tried, tar -xzvf .., and gunzip . > In both cases I got the message: not a gzip format. > How is

Re: TAR.GZ

1999-07-01 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 1 Jul, Cuno Sonnemans wrote about "TAR.GZ" > Hi, > > I've downloaded GUILGNL0.GZ (WP8 language module). > Now I want to try to extract it. > I've tried, tar -xzvf .., and gunzip . > In both cases I got the message: not a gzip format. > How is this possible and w

RE: TAR.GZ

1999-07-01 Thread Pollywog
On 01-Jul-99 Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > Hi, > > I've downloaded GUILGNL0.GZ (WP8 language module). > Now I want to try to extract it. > I've tried, tar -xzvf .., and gunzip . > In both cases I got the message: not a gzip format. > How is this possible and what is the way

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-15 Thread Joey Hess
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.

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-15 Thread Horacio M.G.
> > > do you know my next question? "can't load libtcl.so" > > > BTW, I was denied permission for dpkg'ing from the cd-rom (had to cp > > > to /tmp). > > > > Well I hope you're seeing a pattern by now, but you need tcl76. > > I've also installed tclx76 (and tk42), and "still can't load libtcl.so"

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-15 Thread Horacio M.G.
On 14 Sep 98, at 17:52, Joey Hess wrote: > Horacio M.G. wrote: > > do you know my next question? "can't load libtcl.so" > > BTW, I was denied permission for dpkg'ing from the cd-rom (had to > > cp to /tmp). > > Well I hope you're seeing a pattern by now, but you need tcl76. > I've also installed

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-15 Thread Joey Hess
Horacio M.G. wrote: > do you know my next question? "can't load libtcl.so" > BTW, I was denied permission for dpkg'ing from the cd-rom (had to > cp to /tmp). Well I hope you're seeing a pattern by now, but you need tcl76. -- see shy jo

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-15 Thread Horacio M.G.
On 14 Sep 98, at 16:47, Joey Hess wrote: > Horacio M.G. wrote: > > did it! ...it seems I'm getting up to something. Now it no longer says > > "can't load libXmu.so.6", instead it says: "can't load libXpm.so.4" What > > which other/s library/s should I install next? > > xpm4.7 done! do you know

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-15 Thread Joey Hess
Horacio M.G. wrote: > I just checked and it was: > alien --to-debian foo.tgz Hm, please send me the .tgz file in question. -- see shy jo

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-15 Thread Horacio M.G.
> Well then you must be using some strange old version of alien and it > intrepreted alien -debian as "alien -d -e -b -i -a -n", and the -i made it > install the package it generated. Current versions of alien will *not* do > that: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>alien --to -debian foo > Option to is ambig

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-14 Thread Joey Hess
Horacio M.G. wrote: > did it! ...it seems I'm getting up to something. Now it no longer > says "can't load libXmu.so.6", instead it says: > "can't load libXpm.so.4" > What which other/s library/s should I install next? xpm4.7 -- see shy jo

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-14 Thread Horacio M.G.
On 14 Sep 98, at 14:09, Joey Hess wrote: > Horacio M.G. wrote: > > well, it was just like that, and the result was as I said, no .deb > > package, instead the tree directory directly in /. > > Well then you must be using some strange old version of alien and it > intrepreted alien -debian as "alie

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-14 Thread Joey Hess
Horacio M.G. wrote: > well, it was just like that, and the result was as I said, no .deb > package, instead the tree directory directly in /. Well then you must be using some strange old version of alien and it intrepreted alien -debian as "alien -d -e -b -i -a -n", and the -i made it install the

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-14 Thread Horacio M.G.
On 14 Sep 98, at 12:25, Joey Hess wrote: > Horacio M.G. wrote: > > 2) Scriptum-1_1_7b-linux-elf-static.tgz > > and I ran: alien --to -debian Scriptum-1_1_7b-linux.elf-static.tgz > > I doubt that was your real command line. Alien will not accept invalid > arguments like those. See the man page. >

Re: .tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z -->(alien) ->.deb???

1998-09-14 Thread Joey Hess
Horacio M.G. wrote: > 2) Scriptum-1_1_7b-linux-elf-static.tgz > and I ran: alien --to -debian Scriptum-1_1_7b-linux.elf-static.tgz I doubt that was your real command line. Alien will not accept invalid arguments like those. See the man page. You probably need to install libc5 compatability libra