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Solour
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 5:18 pm    Post subject: How to install Debian *.deb files? Reply with quote

Hi,

is it possible to install debian applications?

In particular I am confronted with these files:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/i386/krb5-user/download
http://packages.debian.org/de/etch-backports/i386/openafs-client/download
http://packages.debian.org/de/etch/i386/openafs-krb5/download

And if so, what is the best way to do it?

Thanks a lot!
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loki_val
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There is no supported way to do what you want. Those applications are in portage, I believe. Is there something wrong with the portage packages?
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 5:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh really?
I found "app-crypt/mit-krb5" and "net-fs/openafs" but since they have quite different names I assumed they were different...
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 5:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's because they're source packages. The packages you linked to were split pre-compiled packages.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 7:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

app-arch/alien can unpack and pack rpm's, deb's and so on.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jh` wrote:
app-arch/alien can unpack and pack rpm's, deb's and so on.

No need for that. The 'ar' utility that is already on his (and your) system can extract the various parts of .deb files.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Please note that any damage you do to your system with those tools may be very hard to reverse.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 7:54 pm    Post subject: I've used app-arch/deb2targz Reply with quote

I've used app-arch/deb2targz utility to convert .deb files to .tar.gz archives and then manually unpack files where it needs. To uninstall - just remove by hands files of package. You should care of dependencies also.
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