converting RPM to DEB

[Alan DuBoff]

Rick Moen wrote:

> Might I suggest a different option?  Since this is a desktop system,
> and presumably not extremely mission-critical, you should consider
> upgrading it to potato, the current "unstable" branch.  I have a a
> potato-based system (a laptop) with Enlightenment and GNOME, and
> they seem to be _extremely_ recent versions.

It is potato, I wouldn't have installed anything else on it since it's
an SMP machine. Somehow I seem to have E/GNOME from stable though.

>    deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

I have that exact same line already.

> Then do "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade".  You are now running
> the "potato" versions of all your original packages.

I suspect this will do it, I do this now after I reboot to Debian.

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Alan DuBoff
Software Orchestration, Inc.