.EXE TO.DEB

[pavanb...@gmail.com]

PPL TELL ME IF WE CAN CONVERT A .EXE FILE INTO .DEB JUST AS V CAN
DO .TAR TO .DEB USING ALIEN

[akhshay gandhi]

if you want to run exe, you can do that using wine, it is there on dc.

[Nishith Rastogi]

oh yeah, btw, we can't convert tar to deb too by alien. tar is just a
compression/archive format like zip. alien is used generally for
conversion between rpm to deb

subiet

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[Sagar Jauhari]

I don't think there should be any problem in converting tar to .deb

(nishith rastogi: "oh yeah, btw, we can't convert tar to deb too by
alien." !!!!)

Infact, sometimes when converting from rpm or yum to debian, the
header files don't really get converted well. At such times, I get
hold of the file's tar counterpart and give 'sudo alien -d
filename.tar'

Talking about .exe, sorry brother, you can't ofcourse convert a
windows executable file (.exe) to a debian one. (the same reason why
we don't have strong DC for linux, or else , everyone would be using
that only !!). The entire file has to be rewritten to be compatible
with the unix system. But you do get debian counterparts of most of
the windows softwares.

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cheers!!!,
Sagar Jauhari

[Nishith Rastogi]

On 4/1/08, Sagar Jauhari <sagarj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't think there should be any problem in converting tar to .deb
>

well of course there is, alien isn't a compiler, tar packages are
source packages generally, probably what you are confusing with is
tgz (used by slackware). alien is a binary package conversion tool.

i can very well send you a bunch of images in tar format, you can't
convert them to .deb.

subiet
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Linux: My 42

[pavan gopal]

sry i meant rpm.thank u 4 the info

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Nishith Rastogi <subiet....@gmail.com> wrote:

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take life as it cums

[pavanb...@gmail.com]

sry i meant rpm.thank u 4 the info

On Apr 1, 8:37 pm, "Nishith Rastogi" <subiet.rast...@gmail.com> wrote:

[pavanb...@gmail.com]

sry i meant rpm(not tar).thank u 4 the info

On Apr 1, 7:50 pm, "Sagar Jauhari" <sagarjauh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think there should be any problem in converting tar to .deb
>
> (nishith rastogi: "oh yeah, btw, we can't convert tar to deb too by
> alien." !!!!)
>
> Infact, sometimes when converting from rpm or yum to debian, the
> header files don't really get converted well. At such times, I get
> hold of the file's tar counterpart and give 'sudo alien -d
> filename.tar'
>
> Talking about .exe, sorry brother, you can't ofcourse convert a
> windows executable file (.exe) to a debian one. (the same reason why
> we don't have strong DC for linux, or else , everyone would be using
> that only !!). The entire file has to be rewritten to be compatible
> with the unix system. But you do get debian counterparts of most of
> the windows softwares.
>
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Nishith Rastogi
>
>
>
> <subiet.rast...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > oh yeah, btw, we can't convert tar to deb too by alien. tar is just a
> > compression/archive format like zip. alien is used generally for
> > conversion between rpm to deb
>
> > subiet
>

> > On 4/1/08, akhshay gandhi <urs.akhs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > if you want to run exe, you can do that using wine, it is there on dc.
>

[pavanb...@gmail.com]

sry i meant rpm(not tar).thank u 4 the info

On Apr 1, 5:06 pm, "Nishith Rastogi" <subiet.rast...@gmail.com> wrote:
> oh yeah, btw, we can't convert tar to deb too by alien. tar is just a
> compression/archive format like zip. alien is used generally for
> conversion between rpm to deb
>
> subiet
>

> On 4/1/08, akhshay gandhi <urs.akhs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > if you want to run exe, you can do that using wine, it is there on dc.
>

[Sagar Jauhari]

yeah, indeed, mistake, I confused them with .tgz or .tar.gz .
Thanks a bunch Mr Nishith.

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cheers !!
Sagar Jauhari