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RE: FW: [Axiom-developer] Important! Cannot Install on Fedora
From: |
Page, Bill |
Subject: |
RE: FW: [Axiom-developer] Important! Cannot Install on Fedora |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:18:13 -0400 |
On Wednesday, October 12, 2005 7:28 PM Camm Maguire wrote:
> ...
> Bill Page wrote:
> > I don't know much about Debian, but I understand that there is
> > some utility for accessing Debian products on "alien" linuxes.
> > Has anyone tried using this approach to install Axiom on other
> > platforms?
> >
>
> The alien program can convert the .deb to a .rpm, which should
> save everyone a lot of work I'd think. One can even unpack a
> tarball from the deb -- details on request.
>
This is what I have tried so far on the axiom-developer.org
server (which is running RedHat 9). If anyone has some experience
with doing this and has some suggestions and explanations to
offer, I would greatly appreciate it!
First I go here
http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/
to download and install the 'alien' program from 'Latest source code'
Then I visit
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/math/axiom
click on i386, choose a mirror and download the *.deb file
I become root and then run
# alien --to-rpm axiom_20050901-2_i386.deb
It gives me some warnings about omitting "scripts":
Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package axiom: postinst
postrm
Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts.
axiom-20050901-3.i386.rpm generated
Should I have used the --scripts parameter?
Now I can try a test run:
# rpm -ihv --test axiom-20050901-3.i386.rpm
It tells me:
error: Failed dependencies:
libreadline.so.5 is needed by axiom-20050901-3
--------
Hmmm... I guess this sort of is working :) but where to go from
here? Should I continue to try to satisfy a dependencies like
libreadline.so.5 from Debian binaries?
Regards,
Bill Page.