On 11-Jul-2004 tim hall wrote: } Last Saturday 10 July 2004 17:14, RickTaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx was like: } > _I wonder if you could script Synaptic to pipe stuff through alien or maybe } > build the alien code into synaptic. } } Synaptic is basically just a front-end for apt, so maybe? You still got differences in package formats and system layouts. I think it might be best to make the changes in whatever package manager... {Apt is holy... mucking about with apt probably violates several internet commandments.} I suppose you could just get all your rpms or debs together in one spot and type "alien -d or -r or whatever" and magically transform them all at once... It's just not the same as watching apt-get do it's little dance on the command line or having the whole thing taken care of for you in synaptic... ---------------------------------- E-Mail: RickTaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: 12-Jul-2004 Time: 03:16:18 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------