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Could at least a simple .tar.bz2 be made available? There's a goddamn lot of linux beyond .deb based distros. | Could at least a simple .tar.bz2 be made available? There's a goddamn lot of linux beyond .deb based distros. | ||
--[[Special:Contributions/193.144.63.50|193.144.63.50]] 10:37, 12 April 2010 (PDT) | --[[Special:Contributions/193.144.63.50|193.144.63.50]] 10:37, 12 April 2010 (PDT) | ||
:And thankfully, most of them have working compilers. What are we supposed to do, take one of our Debian binaries and put it in a tarball? I think not! [[User:TX|TX]] 15:51, 12 April 2010 (PDT) | :And thankfully, most of them have working compilers. What are we supposed to do, take one of our Debian binaries and put it in a tarball? I think not! [[User:TX|TX]] 15:51, 12 April 2010 (PDT) | ||
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Thankfully, "alien" translates package formats. | Thankfully, "alien" translates package formats. | ||
("alien" is available as source and is a part of virtually ALL Linux distros) | ("alien" is available as source and is a part of virtually ALL Linux distros) | ||
It WOULD be handy for other distro users to have a browsable link to the apt packages... | |||
Revision as of 12:36, 11 May 2010
Could at least a simple .tar.bz2 be made available? There's a goddamn lot of linux beyond .deb based distros. --193.144.63.50 10:37, 12 April 2010 (PDT)
- And thankfully, most of them have working compilers. What are we supposed to do, take one of our Debian binaries and put it in a tarball? I think not! TX 15:51, 12 April 2010 (PDT)
Actually, those binaries will (usually) work just fine on most Linux systems. Thankfully, "alien" translates package formats. ("alien" is available as source and is a part of virtually ALL Linux distros)
It WOULD be handy for other distro users to have a browsable link to the apt packages...