Debian installation ------------------- The following recipe is reputed to work on on Debian etch (testing): ## Get the package out into a debian structured directory user@host:/home/user/tmp$ sudo alien -g idcheck-2.0.9-1.i386.rpm ## Fix some file placings for debian user@host:/home/user/tmp$ sudo mv idcheck-2.0.9/etc/httpd idcheck-2.0.9/etc/apache2 user@host:/home/user/tmp$ sudo mv idcheck-2.0.9/usr/lib/httpd idcheck-2.0.9/usr/lib/apache2 user@host:/home/user/tmp$ sudo mv idcheck-2.0.9.orig/etc/httpd idcheck-2.0.9.orig/etc/apache2 user@host:/home/user/tmp$ sudo mv idcheck-2.0.9.orig/usr/lib/httpd idcheck-2.0.9.orig/usr/lib/apache2 ## Update the idcheck.conf file so it has the full path in it user@host:/home/user/tmp$ sudo diff idcheck-2.0.9/etc/apache2/conf.d/idcheck.conf~ idcheck-2.0.9/etc/apache2/conf.d/idcheck.conf 2c2 < LoadModule idcheck_module modules/mod_idcheck.so --- > LoadModule idcheck_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_idcheck.so ## Build the package user@host:/home/user/tmp$ cd idcheck-2.0.9 user@host:/home/user/tmp/idcheck-2.0.9$ sudo dpkg-buildpackage ## Install the package user@host:/home/user/tmp/idcheck-2.0.9$ sudo dpkg -i ../idcheck_2.0.9-2_i386.deb ## Restart apache2 user@host:/home/user/tmp/idcheck-2.0.9$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart Forcing reload of apache 2.0 web server....