I am not even remotely familiar with Debian, however, there is a debian package that I would like to be able to use. Can Debian packages (i.e. package_name.deb) be used in SuSE? Thanks, Darrell
On Wednesday 21 May 2003 00.12, Darrell Cormier wrote:
I am not even remotely familiar with Debian, however, there is a debian package that I would like to be able to use. Can Debian packages (i.e. package_name.deb) be used in SuSE?
You can convert the .deb to rpm format with alien. If you're really lucky you might even be able to use it :) Install alien.rpm from the SuSE CDs
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Wednesday 21 May 2003 00.12, Darrell Cormier wrote:
I am not even remotely familiar with Debian, however, there is a debian package that I would like to be able to use. Can Debian packages (i.e. package_name.deb) be used in SuSE?
You can convert the .deb to rpm format with alien. If you're really lucky you might even be able to use it :)
Install alien.rpm from the SuSE CDs
Thanks Anders, I'll give it a try. D.C.
* Darrell Cormier (linuxdev@sptc.net) [030520 15:09]:
Can Debian packages (i.e. package_name.deb) be used in SuSE?
In general, not if it's a binary package. Binary packages are not compatible across distributions or not even different versions of the same distribution. -- -ckm
In general, not if it's a binary package. Binary packages are not compatible across distributions or not even different versions of the same distribution.
Not always anyhow, but sometimes you get lucky. Darrell, what package are you looking at? Maybe it wouldn't be too difficult to compile yourself or make an unofficial rpm for SuSE. -- John LeMay KC2KTH Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions
John LeMay wrote:
In general, not if it's a binary package. Binary packages are not compatible across distributions or not even different versions of the same distribution.
Not always anyhow, but sometimes you get lucky.
Darrell, what package are you looking at? Maybe it wouldn't be too difficult to compile yourself or make an unofficial rpm for SuSE.
Here is the list of packages I was considering: bible-kjv-text_4.14_all.deb bible-kjv_4.14_i386.deb libc6_2.3.1-17_i386.deb libreadline4_4.3-4_i386.deb I have not yet looked for the lib packages, but thought I might be able to find them elsewhere. The bible packages are what I am most interested in. If anyone knows of a source for open source bible software, would you please share your sources. Thanks, Darrell
On 05/22/2003 09:27 PM, Darrell Cormier wrote:
I have not yet looked for the lib packages, but thought I might be able to find them elsewhere. The bible packages are what I am most interested in.
If anyone knows of a source for open source bible software, would you please share your sources.
I would HIGHLY recommend Sword http://www.crosswire.org and a nice KDE frontend, Bibletime http://www.bibletime.info. I compiled sword on 8.2 with no problems, as well as bibletime. I installed sword with checkinstall, so I have an rpm if you got a way to send it to you (it is 7M, ver 1.55), bibletime had an rpm for suse 8.1, which worked great. :-) HTH -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
On 05/22/2003 09:27 PM, Darrell Cormier wrote:
I have not yet looked for the lib packages, but thought I might be able to find them elsewhere. The bible packages are what I am most interested in.
If anyone knows of a source for open source bible software, would you please share your sources.
I would HIGHLY recommend Sword http://www.crosswire.org and a nice KDE frontend, Bibletime http://www.bibletime.info. I compiled sword on 8.2 with no problems, as well as bibletime. I installed sword with checkinstall, so I have an rpm if you got a way to send it to you (it is 7M, ver 1.55), bibletime had an rpm for suse 8.1, which worked great. :-) HTH
Thanks, I'll look into it. D.C.
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