From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dukecmmtar01.coxmail.com ([68.99.120.48]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1JbBRc-0007Ti-00 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:15:48 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.100] (really [70.166.17.50]) by dukecmmtar01.coxmail.com (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20080317091516.SKMH28132.dukecmmtar01.coxmail.com@[192.168.0.100]> for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:15:16 -0400 Message-ID: <47DE44B8.5070804@baechler.net> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:15:20 -0800 From: Tony Baechler User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Slackware and IBM TTS References: <20080316021740.GA3790@slackbox.localdomain> <20080316150058.GA5574@edgy> In-Reply-To: <20080316150058.GA5574@edgy> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:15:48 -0000 Christopher Moore wrote: > Does slackware have a tool for installing deb packages? I'm sure > there's a way to do what you want. You probably need to run the voxin > installer. I think it creates some deb packaages which need to be > uncompressed and moved to the proper locations. > Hi, All you need is ar (1). Just do "ar x file.deb" and you'll get two files, data.tar.gz and control.tar.gz. Just extract data.tgz or data.tar.gz into a temp dir and move files from there. You can ignore debian-binary and control.*.