Re: OK, how do I UNinstall programs?

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From: James Lee
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 00:00

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In alt.os.linux David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
: Debian GNU/Linux has the 'alien' utility as a normal part of the
: distribution. It may run someplace else; you could check
: ftp.debian.org for the source package and see if it will compile,
: or run Debian...

OK... I downloaded that and tried to convert a tgz file to a rpm
while login as root (obviously).
When run from a Win98 partition, it complains that it cannot
	"Cannot chown to uid 279 gid 50: Operation not permitted"
error.
I don't have anyone with uid 279 here on this RH machine.
Is uid 279 supposed to be some special guy? 
ftp is the only one having gid 50.

I repeated this using the /tmp directory and this time, the error is
"Bad owner/group".

So, is Alien assuming something different?

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From: James Lee <leekk@cs.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: OK, how do I  UNinstall programs?
Date: 1999/04/27
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