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Garon_CrossBlade
06-21-2002, 05:47 PM
How do you do it? I have been seaching through my docs and on the internet and i can't find anything on how to install a deb package. I am running Slackware 8.0...can sombody please help? Thanks in advance.

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scanez
06-21-2002, 05:56 PM
A .deb package is a Debian package, meaning it is meant for installing in Debian. You'll have to find another format of the file you are trying to install? What are you trying to install?
mdwatts
06-21-2002, 05:57 PM
rpm -ivh packagename.deb ;) :D

Does Slackware have a gui package manager? That might support deb's.

Others here should be able to help.
bastard23
06-21-2002, 07:19 PM
Garon_CrossBlade,
You might look and see if the .deb package comes as an .tar.gz which should work correctly on slackware. If not that, try to get the rpm, as slackware (I believe) has a 'rpm2tgz', which creates a slackware package. If you can't do that, try and get a app called 'alien' ( http://www.kitenet.net/programs/alien/ ). I haven't used it personally, but it converts most package formats back and forth.

Worst comes to worst, you can try and get the source and build it yourself, which is good in it's own way.

Happy installing,
Chris
chikn
06-21-2002, 07:27 PM
Slack uses the non gui pkgtool fot .tgz packages
Garon_CrossBlade
06-22-2002, 05:02 PM
I know *.deb is a debian package. I have been reading stuff on the debian website and it says that i can install it under slack. Thanks for all of your help.
mdwatts
06-23-2002, 02:23 AM
Originally posted by Garon_CrossBlade:
<STRONG>I know *.deb is a debian package. I have been reading stuff on the debian website and it says that i can install it under slack. Thanks for all of your help.</STRONG>

Have you tried the Slack package manager to see if it supports debs as I suggested earlier?

I've noticed that the KDE Package Manager does have deb support though I have never tried installing one.
Garon_CrossBlade
06-23-2002, 02:11 PM
yeah i tryed both. I can't seem to get it to work though.
Ludootje
06-24-2002, 01:50 PM
There's like 95% of chance that the package is also available in .tar.gz / .bz2 / .tgz; so check that.
z0mbix
06-25-2002, 03:25 AM
Originally posted by Garon_CrossBlade:
<STRONG>yeah i tryed both. I can't seem to get it to work though.</STRONG>

What are you trying to install? Whatever it is, find a .tgz or .tar.gz version. Or....just install Debian! ;)
Strike
06-25-2002, 12:31 PM
.deb's are ar archives. You do something like ar x foo.deb to extract the .tar.gz files within it. The data.tar.gz contains the files you want, copy or move this tar file to / and extract it with tar xvfz data.tar.gz, and all the files should go where they need to go.

There are installation/configuration scripts in the control.tar.gz tarball, but I'm not sure how well those would work on non-Debian systems.
Garon_CrossBlade
06-25-2002, 01:10 PM
thanks for the info dude. ;)