From 422923094ea3895400134b4f5134034568c31ecb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: joey Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 02:11:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] more docs --- INSTALL | 18 +++++------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 243b532..05bede5 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,15 +1,7 @@ +To try alien before installing, just run ./alien from this directory. Most +features will work prior to installation. + To install alien, become root and type "make install". -To use alien, you will need several other programs. Alien is a perl program, -and requires perl version 5 or greater. You must also have the Getopt::Long -perl module installed on your system, I believe this is a standard part of -perl. - -To convert packages to rpms, you need the rpm package manager; get it from -Red Hat's ftp site. - -If you want to convert packages to debian packages, you will need the dpkg, -dpkg-dev, and debmake packages, which are available on the Debian ftp site. -You'll also need gcc, and make. - -Please report any bugs to the author: Joey Hess +To use alien, you'll need a variety of other software. See the README for +details.