Thanks for the clarification and pointers re: alien, David! John <div>On 11/13/06, David Trask <<a href="mailto:dtrask@vcsvikings.org">dtrask@vcsvikings.org </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">"Support list for open source software in schools." <<a href="mailto:k12osn@redhat.com"> k12osn@redhat.com</a>> writes: >Hello all, > >Well I downloaded the rpm's but I don't have any tools on Ubuntu to >extract them. So I can't tell if this is where the scripts for pushing >stuff to users desktops is or not. Can anyone just zip up the scripts >they are using with k12ltsp and send them to me? > >It would be much appreciated. > >Thanks, > >John As Eric pointed out in an earlier post....you can't use them in Ubuntu....the paths are all different.....you can only use them on Fedora at this point. Now....one other note (and not that you should do this in this case, but you can install some rpm's on Ubuntu (or pretty much any Debian based system) by using "alien". You would run something alien k12ltpspackage.rpm and that will convert the rpm into a deb file. David N. Trask Technology Teacher/Director Vassalboro Community School <a href="mailto:dtrask@vcsvikings.org">dtrask@vcsvikings.org </a> (207)923-3100 _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div>