[cad-linux] Re: test

phrostie wrote...
>
> I'm currently running a minimulist install of Debian sarge at about 650mb.
> this is probably part of my problem.  there is a missed dependency
somewhere.
> that's why they call it testing.
>
> a tar ball would be fine as long as you include a list(ascii text) of
> dependencies and where your systems is looking for them.  piping ldd to a
file
> would probably suffice.  don't kill yourself.  my problem with alien is
> something that i need to fix anyway.  i'd downloaded the rpm of one of the
> recent lx-viewer rpms and it is suffering the same fate.
>
> i'll let you know if i get this working.


Did you try to reinstall alien by:
apt-get --purge remove alien (--purge = removes all configuration files
also)
apt-get install alien

Of course this doesn't help if there is a bug in the alien package, or in
any of the packages that alien depends on, but it's worth a try.

BTW, there is no open bugs in the testing alien version:
http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/alien.html
(But that doesn't of course prove that there isn't any bugs, you might
have encountered an unknown bug.)


Hmm... From the error you got:
"Use of uninitialized value in die at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package/Deb.pm
line 484."
...Maybe there is something wrong with your perl installation?



Tomas

PS
I did try to convert the tomcad-base-0.3-0.rpm package with alien myself,
just to test the conversion, and it went without errors. But this was on
a Woody system.
DS

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