[lug] HP Web JetAdmin & Debian & FPM packages...

[Nate Duehr]

And Bruce Perens said that Debian was HP's Linux of choice... heh heh.
;-)

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:05:51PM -0600, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote:
> 
> 	I am attempting to install HP's Web JetAdmin software on a Debian
> machine when they only support RedHat. Instead of providing a tarball or
> even an RPM, they provide some self extracting/installing binary that does
> nothing but fail with error '24' on my Debian box. I don't have a RedHat
> box handy, so I can't install it there and then pull back the files.
> 	I managed to get at the files in the self extracting binary that
> one downloads, but I haven't made it much further than that. The bulk of
> the install files appear to be packaged in something called an FPM
> package (what I could gather from their shell script install
> file). Looking at the contents of the file, a .fpb file, the top looks
> like XML data defining the files contained inside and their SHA sums. Then
> binary data follows. 
> 	I have looked high and low for information on this file format and
> on install this program on Debian, and found nothing. Is there anyone out
> there that has installed the JetAdmin software on Debian, or even knows
> anything about this package format? And if so, would you please help
> me? Thanks!
> 
> 	PS. I would even be happy to get a tgz of the installed files from
> a RH system (private email of course). 
> 
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