[lug] Re: newbie

lordSauron, apt-get is really specific to debian, and debian based
distros, not so much linux. Unless the apt-get program is installed
on another distro, the utilities aren't going to be there.

On 12/18/05, lordSauron <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> oh... duh. don't know why I didn't think of this before.
>
> Alien (apt-get install alien) is a tool to take things and make them
> into a nice pretty package which you can then use apt-file (apt-get
> install apt-file) to make a nice .deb or .rpm, depending on which
> distro you're on.
>