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Hi all,

I've been experimenting with the very interesting Alien (http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/alien) tool to convert RPMs to Debian-friendly .deb files. Last night, I tried
to convert John Pye's Campsite 2.3.0 RPMs to .debs, and was successful to
a point; I had to install and configure MySQL, and was running into a few
problems with that based more on my own stupidity than anything else.

Many of the config issues Sebastian mentioned in a previous mail titled
"Hints to install 2.3.0 on Debian Sarge" such as setting Apache to use
user/group www-data and localhost.localdomain to connect to MySQL are
there as well.

For anyone feeling adventurous, here's the .deb file I made from John's
RPM. It installs without errors using dpkg -i, but there are a number of
config things you have to do after the fact. John seems to think that
changing a few values in a config file would make this work.

Maybe this would be something interesting for the Ubuntu-ists among us?

I've uploaded the .deb file to this address:

http://www.arellanes.com/campsite

doug
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Hi all,



I've been experimenting with the very interesting Alien (http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/alien) tool to convert RPMs to Debian-friendly .deb files. Last night, I tried to convert John Pye's Campsite 2.3.0 RPMs to .debs, and was successful to a point; I had to install and configure MySQL, and was running into a few problems with that based more on my own stupidity than anything else.



Many of the config issues Sebastian mentioned in a previous mail titled "Hints to install 2.3.0 on Debian Sarge" such as setting Apache to use user/group www-data and localhost.localdomain to connect to MySQL are there as well.



For anyone feeling adventurous, here's the .deb file I made from John's RPM. It installs without errors using dpkg -i, but there are a number of config things you have to do after the fact. John seems to think that changing a few values in a config file would make this work.



Maybe this would be something interesting for the Ubuntu-ists among us?



I've uploaded the .deb file to this address:



http://www.arellanes.com/campsite



doug
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