Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [Gcl-devel] make-databases

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Tim Daly  <address@hidden> writes:

> Yes, if you 
>   mkdir mnt/linux/algebra
>   cp src/share/algebra/*daase
> the databases won't get rebuilt. However, the databases will be old
> NAG databases. What you really want to do is copy the databases from 
> another recent build, tar them up, copy them over, and untar them
> into mnt/linux/algebra.
> 

Thanks!  Will try this in a new package ...

> The Zaurus 5500 is arm, the 5600 is X-scale.
> 
> Could you point me at a site with the .deb file?
> Is a .deb file a tgz file? How do I unpack one?
> I'm not a debian user. Is there a faq someplace?
> 

http://people.debian.org/~camm/gcl

There is a file there called HOWTO-UNPACK-DEBS, but in short, .deb as
an ar format.  ar x ....deb gives a data.tar.gz, which can be unpacked
with gzip and tar.

Take care,

> Tim
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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