Re: [SLUG] Scorched Earth 3D

From: Russell Hires (rhires@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2006 - 09:58:13 EST


On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 09:26 -0500, Eben King wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Russell Hires wrote:
>
> but maybe not wx 2.6, but I
> >> can't find a -dev package for 2.6.

...snip...

> > 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.

I don't think you need the -dev package, I'm just d/l the source, and
seeing what I can build. Is this what you did?

> > 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/ ?
>

I think with alien, you can (re)build from rpm to deb, or just install
directly from rpm...I haven't done anything with alien in so long, I'm
not sure anymore. Either way, I think the process is the same, just a
matter of where it stops.

Russell

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