[lug] RE: newbie to alien needs help

[McIllece, Matthew W]

Wow, thanks for the thorough response Ralf!

I forgot that Corel puts the OS source on a separate CD.  I was wondering
why a full Corel install was so much smaller than a full Red Hat install.

I'll try "dpkg -i -force-overwrite device3dfx_2.3-5_i386.deb" next chance I
get.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ralf Mattes [SMTP:rm at ns.aura.de]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 08, 2000 10:54 AM
> To:	'lug at lug.boulder.co.us'
> Cc:	'clue-talk at clue.denver.co.us'
> Subject:	CLUE-Talk: Re: [lug] newbie to alien needs help
> 
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, McIllece, Matthew W wrote:
> 
> > Has anybody installed the 3Dfx device driver in a Debian-based Linux
> > distribution?
> > 
> > When I do an "alien -i Device3Dfx-2.3-4.src.rpm" I get messages such as,
> > 
> > "no utmp entry available and LOGNAME not defined; using uid of process
> (0)
> > at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 53."
> 
> alien tries to find your username to log it. It can't get it from utmp
> nor from the enviroment variable LOGNAME and therefore uses the uid of the
> process itself (you seem to run it as user 'root'). This shouldn't be a
> problem.
> 
> > "dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable
> ${shlibs:Depends}"
> 
> While converting the rpm->deb the program dpkg-gencontrol (which is called
> by alien to do the dirty work) builds a control file (the file that
> carries
> all the information about debian packages). It obvioulsly can't get
> information
> about the shared libraries the packege depends on--still no problem.
> 
> > "dpkg: error processing device3dfx_2.3-5_i386.deb (--install): trying to
> > overwrite `/3dfx.gif', which is also in package glide-v2"
> 
> Ah: the newly generated package tries to install a file (3dfx.gif) that
> is also included in an already installed debian packet (glide-v2). This 
> is the problem.
> 
> > "Errors were encountered while processing: device3dfx_2.3-5_i386.deb"
> > 
> > "alien: Error running: dpkg --no-force-overwrite -i
> > device3dfx_2.3-5_i386.deb"
> 
> Alien is very defensive with installation options. If the file
> 'device3dfx_2.3-5_i386.deb'
> is still in your directory just try the following:
> dpkg -i -force-overwrite device3dfx_2.3-5_i386.deb
> This should install the package.
> 
> 
> > I also tried an "rpm --rebuild Device3Dfx-2.3-4.src.rpm", but that
> resulted
> > in,
> > 
> > "Expect kernel source at location /usr/src/linux
> > Sym.link /usr/src/linux -> where you have your sources
> > make: *** [sanity] Error 255
> > Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.91751 (%build)"
> > 
> > I'm currently using Corel Linux and I can't find anything but header
> files
> > in any directory named "linux".  Anybody have an idea as to how to get
> this
> > driver installed on my non Red Hat distribution?
> 
> Yep, they don't install the kernel sources (shame on them!).
> 
>  Ralf
> 
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