On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Russell Hires wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 21:59 -0500, Eben King wrote:
>> So I heard about Scorched Earth 3D
>> (http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Scorched%203D) and went to check it out,
>> as I like the original. I installed 35(!) packages to satisfy dependencies
>> (thank goodness for Synaptic's log so I could remove them when it failed),
>> and I think there's a disagreement with wx 2.4, but maybe not wx 2.6, but I
>> can't find a -dev package for 2.6. Argh. Does anybody have (or know where
>> I can get) a statically-linked copy of SE3D? There's always the rpm copy,
>> but I might run into the same problem there, only worse -- installing
>> binaries for another distro can be hazardous, assuming I can find out how to
>> install it at all.
> Could you compile it yourself? That's a solution that I find useful
> occasionally, since I run debian-PPC.
Yeah, that's what I was trying to do.
> Also, you could try to install the rpm using the 'alien' program...the
> assumption here is that you're using debian, and want to install the
> rpm...
Cool, thanks. Does that do a translation of contents of RPM packages to
equivalent .debs , or do a straight s/\.rpm/.deb/ ?
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