Re: portable application

On 2008-02-14, ray <hanlray@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I compiled and installed an application from source code on Debian at
home. I want to use the application on SUSE in Office but I don't want
compile it again. Is there a tool or trick to package the application
from Debian so I can use it on SUSE directly?Thanks in advance.

Try alien to convert .deb to .rpm. If Debian and SuSE use different
versions of shared libraries, you may have to compile anyway, or install
the SuSE packaged version of that application if it exists.

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