myDSL Extensions (deprecated) :: Installing  hexeditor



I saw this hex editor and wondered if using it was a simple as extracting the files into there appropriate directories?

Thanks b1m1



Name        : bless                        Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version     : 0.3.2                             Vendor: Alexandros Frantzis <alf
82@freemail.gr>
Release     : 1                             Build Date: Thu Mar 17 15:33:57 2005
Install date: (not installed)               Build Host: hal9000
Group       : Applications/Editors          Source RPM: bless-0.3.2-1.src.rpm
Size        : 902054                           License: GPL
Packager    : Mirco Mueller <macslow@bangang.de>
URL         : http://home.gna.org/bless
Summary     : hex-editor based on Mono and Gtk#
Description :
Bless is a high quality, full featured hex editor. It is written in mono/Gtk#
and its primary platform is GNU/Linux. However it should be able to run without
problems on every platform that mono and Gtk# run.
/usr/bin/bless
/usr/lib/bless-0.3.2/bin/bless.exe
/usr/lib/bless-0.3.2/data/bless-about.png
/usr/lib/bless-0.3.2/data/bless-icon.png
/usr/share/applications/bless.desktop
/usr/share/doc/bless-0.3.2/developer/bless.xmi
/usr/share/doc/bless-0.3.2/user/bless.css
/usr/share/doc/bless-0.3.2/user/contact.html
/usr/share/doc/bless-0.3.2/user/display-example1.png
Could be, but it could just as easily not run, depending on whether DSL has all necessary libs and other dependencies.  I don't know what Mono is, but i don't recall seeing it in DSL...that may be small problem.  Another possible problem is that it is an RPM package, for which DSL has no support.  You'd need to either add RPM to DSL or extract the files in a distro that already has RPM support.
Yes it looks like I need to install the Mono libraries for this to run.
Bugger, linux programs are bigger than win32 programs .. so many libraries
note to self: console apps rule

thanks. regards b1m1
There is the aliendebs.dsl , which will convert the RPM into a .deb file.

From there, you could use ' dpkg-deb -x nameofdeb.deb . ' to extract it
into the directory that you have the RPM and .deb copy parked in..

Then you could look thru the files, see what can be stripped,
add needed libs, tar it up into a tarball, make a list of contents,
and then proceed like making any other extension.

73
ke4nt

original here.