Alien

[Bill Davidsen]

Bill Oliver wrote:
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> On Fri, 24 May 2013, Neal Becker wrote:
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>> Michael Schwendt wrote:
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>> I don't know how useful alien would really be.  Because package naming is not
>> consistent between debian and Fedora, I'm guessing that it's unlikely to be able
>> to satisfy requirements most of the time.
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> That's what I keep running into.  There are a couple of apps I use a lot
> (Makehuman,for example) that are not packaged for fedora.  I've tried to
> get them going, including compiling from scratch, but keep running into
> dependency problems.  They are solvable but simply not worth the effort of
> tracking down.  I ended up installing Mint in virtualbox and run it from
> there on my fedora box.
>
I have rather a lot of those, sometimes the least elegant solution is the 
easiest to maintain. The nice thing is that since they are frozen you don't have 
to worry about updates. The ultimate LTS version ;-)



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