RE: Where to get latest versions of programs

["Fox, Kevin M" <kmfox bhi010 bhi-erc com>]

Push comes to shove, you can get alien and convert the rpms to debs.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Erik Andersen [SMTP:andersen@xmission.com]
> Sent:	Friday, January 15, 1999 3:11 PM
> To:	tysons@deepwell.com
> Subject:	Re: Where to get latest versions of programs
> 
> Quoting Miguel de Icaza <miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx>:
> > 
> > > Thanks to all who replied. I don't like to compile much at all.  :).
> Is
> > > most gnome software released as RPMs?  
> > 
> > No, it is released in source form as a gzip compressed tar file.  
> > 
> > But most gnome softawre includes a .spec file, so you can type:
> > 
> >     rpm -ta gnome-package.tar.gz
> > 
> > We also ship the debian setup, so you can build .deb files from them
> > easily (dont ask me how this works).
> > 
> 
> To build .deb files, you should have dpkg-dev installed on your Debian
> box, and then you can type:
> 	debian/rules build  (use dpkg-buildpackage if you want to sign it)
> For some (all?) of the debian dirs you will need to run
> 'debian/debconfigure'
> first to build the rules file.  I use Debian, but I havn't tried building
> .debs for a while.  Last time I tried it failed and I was too lasy to fix
> the build.  I know Jim Pick was working on getting these builds to work,
> so 
> they may (or may not) be working right now...  Some modules in CVS don't
> even have debian dirs (such as gnomehack -- I've been meaning to set this
> up but I've been too busy making it work).
> 
> The point is that this stuff is moving so quickly it is hard to get all
> the
> consumer packaging in place.
> 
>  -Erik
> 
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