I'm planning to try Quasar Accounting but they don't have a DEB package yet,
so I'm thinking of using alien on one of their RPMs.  They have packages
for several versions each of Fedora, Mandrake, Red Hat and SuSE.  Does
anyone know which one I should pick to alienize?
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Jim Bowering wrote:

> I'm planning to try Quasar Accounting but they don't have a DEB package
> yet, so I'm thinking of using alien on one of their RPMs.  They have
> packages for several versions each of Fedora, Mandrake, Red Hat and SuSE.
> Does anyone know which one I should pick to alienize?

I've only tried to alien RPMs for Fedora/Red Hat.  This works as well as one
can expect an RPM to work.  If you can generate a real deb from the source,
do that instead.  You'll get a better result.

If you do create your own debs from source, be sure to create an apt
repository for it and get it listed on apt-get.org so other people can find
it.

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Paul Johnson wrote:

> Jim Bowering wrote:
> 
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> I've only tried to alien RPMs for Fedora/Red Hat...  If you can generate a
real deb from the source, do that instead.  You'll get a better result.

Are you referring to checkinstall?  Quasar also has a Slackware package.
Can that be used?

> If you do create your own debs from source, be sure to create an apt
> repository for it and get it listed on apt-get.org so other people can
> find it.

I don't think I'm the stuff from which apt repositories are made.  It would
be nice to share the deb though, if it works.

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