From: Jose <jmirles@sc.rr.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RPM version of Alien around?
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 21:33:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200211072133.25156.jmirles@sc.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0306f31350507b2HNLMAIL3@hawaii.rr.com>
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
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-08 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-07 5:37 RPM version of Alien around? David Jones
2002-11-07 17:18 ` Arthur Othieno
2002-11-08 2:33 ` Jose [this message]
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