Develop RTEMS under Debian

[Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>]

Pablo Casado wrote:
> you used alien incorrectly, alien is a perl script to convert a redhat 
> rpm package into a debian deb package so the correct way to install the 
> toolset would be
> 
> alien --to-deb  -i autoconf-rtems-2.57-1.noarch.rpm
> to convert it into a deb package and then to install this package
> 
> dpkg  -i autoconf-rtems-2.57-1.noarch.deb

Pablo could you write a patch to the Getting Started manual
(file doc/started/binaries.t) which adds a section on Debian
format packages and Alien.

Thanks.

--joel

> Pablo
> 
> Sergey Ablalimov wrote:
> 
>> I don't remember. Now I use Red Hat 8 and can't reproduce errors.
>>
>> Friday, August 20, 2004, 4:38:46 PM, you wrote:
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>>> On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 12:12, Sergey Ablalimov wrote:
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>>>> Hello Yanjun. About 1 year ago I use Debian. When I do
>>>>      alien -i autoconf-rtems-2.57-1.noarch.rpm
>>>>      alien -i automake-rtems-1.7.2-1.noarch.rpm
>>>> I get error,
>>>>     
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>>> Which errors do you get?
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>>>> Hope this help.
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>>> Not really, if you Debian users don't tell us which errors you see,
>>> nobody will be able to fix them.
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>>> Ralf
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