converting RPM to DEB

[Jim Franklin]

Hi Alan
  Are you looking in the wrong place?  GNOME and enlightenment are not
in the non-free packages.  Follow the ftp below:

ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/x11/

Jim

Alan DuBoff wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> 
> Alan DuBoff
> Software Orchestration, Inc.