From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jose Subject: Re: RPM version of Alien around? Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 21:33:25 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200211072133.25156.jmirles@sc.rr.com> References: <0306f31350507b2HNLMAIL3@hawaii.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <0306f31350507b2HNLMAIL3@hawaii.rr.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 07 November 2002 12:37 am, David Jones wrote: > A friend has the newest release of Mandrake installed on > his Fujitsu Lifebook. He has a need to install a closed- > source app that's available only in DEB form. Apparently > the GUI Mandrake app installer doesn't understand DEB > form. I suggested he use Alien to convert it to RPM. > Unfortunately, Alien seems to either be available only in > DEB form and/or requires other packages that are only > in DEB form. In his words, "I need to convert Alien to > RPM form so I can install it to convert its DEB package" > (or something like that, it's been a long day). http://www.rpm.bone.net/ has it -- Jose jmirles@sc.rr.com Registered Mandrake, Redhat and SuSE user Children - the most commonly transmitted sexual disease - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs