RE: help with seting up a dumb terminal to Linux please

["L. C. Robinson" <lcr@draken.localnet>]

On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Chris Peterson wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sunday, January 11, 1998 3:17 PM, Bill Schiavo 
> [SMTP:Wschiavo@concentric.net] wrote:
> > Hello everyone.
> >
> > It's too bad you're not using slakware.  I have set up lots of systems
> > to
> > do exactly what you want, in fact I use Linux (slakware) like that all
> > the
> > time.
> >
> > I considered using Redhat but I found that it is more difficult for me
> > to
> > install and I'm not crazy about RPM.  Don't get me wrong, RPM is a nice
> > package but I couldn't for the life of me get it to build on slakware

I know what you mean, since I tried this before I switched.  See below
for an easy solution.

> > and
> > I am not willing to switch to Redhat for a single package.
> 
> Try rpm2tgz and pkgtool.  I'm not sure how well it works but if there's 
> something that's offered in rpm that you can't find elsewhere, it's worth 
> a try.

There are now a number of packages that provide the ability to convert packages
between different types.  One is called "alien": details on the alien home
page below, which also contains links to a page where you can get precompiled
package managers from other distributions, if you need them:

http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/

BTW, alien 5.20 has a bug which prevents it from converting from debian
to rpm format (I have a work around).

L. C. Robinson
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