I've dug around and found a few threads and tools, e.g., alien (converts to .rpms). The Palm Pre SDK packages are all .deb files. Any suggestions on the best/easiest way to convert or install these on a Fedora 12 system?
-- Mark C. Allman, PMP, CSM -- Allman Professional Consulting, Inc. -- www.allmanpc.com, 617-947-4263 -- Twitter: allmanpc
Le samedi 17 avril 2010 à 10:57 -0400, Mark C. Allman a écrit :
I've dug around and found a few threads and tools, e.g., alien (converts to .rpms). The Palm Pre SDK packages are all .deb files. Any suggestions on the best/easiest way to convert or install these on a Fedora 12 system?
-- Mark C. Allman, PMP, CSM -- Allman Professional Consulting, Inc. -- www.allmanpc.com, 617-947-4263 -- Twitter: allmanpc
Hi,
if the SDK is really only available as .deb files, you can anyway install them without alien (since it is not yet available in Fedora): for each .deb file you have: ar vx /path/to/your/file.deb data.tar.gz tar xzf data.tar.gz -C / rm data.tar.gz
Anyway there is absolutely no guarantee that the binaries provided by these .deb are compatible with Fedora: missing libraries or versions not provided by Fedora can be expected. You can parse the installed binaries with ldd to check it... There is also chances that these binairies are 32-bit only by the way (even if it is not a problem under x86_64, in this last case install 32-bit dependencies with yum : yum install package.i686).
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