Re: [Chicken-users] RedHat and Debian packages

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Harri Haataja wrote:
> On 15/01/07, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> > The fragmentation in the Linux world is ridiculous.  I'm on my 4th OS
> > installation attempt in 3 weeks, trying to get either dual boot or
> > triple boot systems going, because of RedHat vs. Debian issues.  All the
> > Cell SDK stuff is RPM based, and it hadn't dawned on me that I simply
> > couldn't use Debian.
>
> Have you looked at alien?
> http://packages.debian.org/alien

I believe I did.  I saw caveats about package converters.  Since the 
Cell SDK sets up a cross-compiler and a Cell simulator, I really don't 
think it's a good idea to put the packages through magic transformations.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every