<p class="spip">Though I can’t speak or write french, I’m able to read it. So please excuse me for writing my comment in english.</p>

<p class="spip">Your article was very helpful for me to install iSeriesAccess under Debian Stable (currently Etch). But i have a few remarks :</p>

<p class="spip">While it works to add a temporary line to /etc/apt/sources.list and comment it out after installing libmotif3, due to prevent problems with later upgrades, it would be a better way to create a /etc/apt/preferences with some pinning lines like e. g. :</p>

<p class="spip">Package : * <CR>
Pin : release a=stable<CR>
Pin-Priority : 700<CR></p>

<p class="spip">Package : *<CR>
Pin : release a=sid<CR>
Pin-Priority : 10<CR></p>

<p class="spip">Package : libmotif*<CR>
Pin : release a=sid<CR>
Pin-Priority : 100<CR></p>

<p class="spip">Further (under Etch) you shouldn’t edit /etc/ld.so.conf but create a new file e. g.  /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ibm.conf with one line /opt/ibm/iSeriesAccess/lib</p>

<p class="spip">At least : it seems to confuse a lot of people (including me), that you get an error message "Xt Warning : Cannot convert string "-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-100-100-m-*" to type FontSet" when starting /opt/ibm/iSeriesAccess/bin/ibm5250 without any parameters. So it should be mentioned, that at least you should apply one Parameter -LANGID fr_FR (or de_DE in my case) to the startup command.</p>

<p class="spip">Best regards</p>