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Hi

I need to run an api provided by a company in order to connect/execute
commands on their server. their api linux version supports fedora 2 or
5 but not debian which I already have. now a questions come to
mind. how can I make the api work under debian?

thanks

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API definition (was: ???)

Submitted by pinniped on Fri, 2006-09-08 16:34.

"API" is simply Application Programming Interface - it doesn't make sense to say you are using this between two machines because an API is nothing more than a list of function calls which you can make to interface with something. If you are given some kind of client program to run on your machine then that makes more sense. In that case, you only need to know what other libraries to install to make it work; Fedora Core5 and Debian Etch should be very compatible (except for the strange way Fedora people like to configure things).

To get a list of library dependencies of a program:
ldd program-name
Like:
ldd bash

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if you get a .rpm, you can

Submitted by tricky on Sun, 2006-09-10 23:19.

if you get a .rpm, you can always convert it to a .deb that you can install with dpkg with alien.

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...always... heh heh heh ;-)

Submitted by 1 on Wed, 2006-09-13 14:07.

...always... heh heh heh ;-)

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api for a different distro

Submitted by ekdya on Wed, 2006-09-13 18:15.

is this generally the way...
$ alien --to-deb package.rpm
?

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