NVU (tar.gz-installation)

[albi at scii.nl]

On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 14:54:18 +0200
"René L. Reingard" <reingard at hispeed.ch> wrote:

> I would like to install it from nvu.com, as i get a german version
> there. it is a tar.gz file.
> okay. i can unpack that tar.gz.
> what to do next? frankly, i do not know.

afair you can directly run the nvu-binary from without the unpacked
directory

> i have done installing of deb-files, thats all.
> is there not also a way of converting tar.gz into deb?

install alien, then e.g. alien -d -c blabla.tgz
it won't help you much in this case, because nvu unpacks 1 single dir,
not spread all over your system