Slackware and IBM TTS

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Christopher Moore wrote:
> Does slackware have a tool for installing deb packages?  I'm sure 
> there's a way to do what you want.  You probably need to run the voxin 
> installer.  I think it creates some deb packaages which need to be 
> uncompressed and moved to the proper locations.  
>   

Hi,

All you need is ar (1). Just do "ar x file.deb" and you'll get two 
files, data.tar.gz and control.tar.gz. Just extract data.tgz or 
data.tar.gz into a temp dir and move files from there. You can ignore 
debian-binary and control.*.




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