Installing debs from Mepis

[Nigel Ridley]

Pete wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Nigel Ridley <nigel at rmk.co.il> wrote:
> 
>> Pete wrote:
>>> I wouldn't add the repository, you never know what kind of different
>>> versions or different builds of the same versions of stuff are in there,
>> and
>>> apt will just blindly install whatever it sees as the "most recent
>> version"
>>> of stuff, without regard to where it's coming from. Just pull that deb
>> from
>>> their repository and install it via dpkg.
>>>
>>> -p.
>> How do I do that? I know it sounds a nooby question but I've never had the
>> occasion to do
>> something like that before.
> 
> 
> Where did you find the package? I'm having a ton of trouble finding the
> Mepis repositories.  In any event, find the repository, find the package,
> download it to your hard drive,  then either:
> 
> 1. "sudo dpkg -i /path/to/foo.deb" (without the quotes, and replacing the
> slug filepath with the actual path to the package, probably
> /home/you/foo.deb)
> 
> 2. Open it in Gdebi if you have that installed, and click "install."
> 
> best-
> p.
> 
> 
I found the repository here:
ftp://ftp.mepis.com/mepis/dists/mepis-7.0/main/binary-i386/
but on checking I can't find any mention of bibletime :-(

Oh well - next step - compile! [http://www.bibletime.info/software_installation.html] or 
could I use one of the rpm's and use alien on it? If so, which one - fedora, redhat or suse?

Blessings,

Nigel

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