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Date:      Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:07:27 -0500
From:      "E. J. Cerejo" <ejcerejo@optonline.net>
To:        Chris <racerx@makeworld.com>
Cc:        Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Deb archives
Message-ID:  <47CF43CF.9060907@optonline.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080305034741.606a2d81@thudpucker.makeworld.com>
References:  <20080304210925.ee75c070.ejcerejo@optonline.net> <200803050246.04857.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> <20080304225450.1d174a9d.ejcerejo@optonline.net> <20080305034741.606a2d81@thudpucker.makeworld.com>

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Chris wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:54:50 -0500
> "E. J. Cerejo" <ejcerejo@optonline.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:46:03 +0000
>> Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday 05 March 2008 02:09:25 E. J. Cerejo wrote:
>>>> Is there a way to unpack a deb package in FreeBSD?  I don't see
>>>> anything in the ports to do it!
>>>>
>>> I don't know if this helps, but deb packages are really ar achives.
>> I found it, it's called dpkg, thanks anyway.
> 
> Yes you did! Interesting enough thought, I would like to see how one
> might config apt-get to be used w/FreeBSD and the packages (I assume?).
> 
> 

I don't see how apt-get could work though!  It pull every binary 
dependency built for debian.



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