On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Chris Geddings wrote: > Additionally, you will need to have rpm installed, or at least the > libraries available. Yum, as much as reasonably possible, lets the > RPM libraries do the work with the package files themselves (I mean, it > already does that part pretty well) allowing yum to concentrate on > doing other things well. > > So, if you can get rpm installed on your system with the appropriate > python libraries (rpm-python and libxml2-python, I believe), you will > probably be able to run with it. > IIRC, if you "apt-get install alien" it should stick some really old version of rpm in your debian system for ya as a dep for alien. You'll probably end up having to use yum-1.0.x though as I think it's rpm-4.0.1 Oops! nope it 4.0.3.... http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/rpm.html -n -- ------------------------------------------- nathan hruby <nhruby@xxxxxxx> uga enterprise information technology services production systems support metaphysically wrinkle-free -------------------------------------------
