On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 07:08:52PM -0600, Ben Lutgens wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 06:37:46PM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > >Ok, I'm a new Dweebian^WDebian user; and I am wondering how experienced > >users deal with .rpms and non-.deb'ed software. > >since the stuff on the debian mirrors is commonly months behind the latest > >version (or maybe you're testing alpha versions of a project); what do you > >do if there is a .rpm (or even just a .tgz) for a package you might already > >have installed with dpkg? > > Install to ~/ somewhere it's a thought. anyone know if there's a way to convince RPM to install to a different root? like /usr/local/, or ~/local? how well does stow work in this case? Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700