On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > alien -t filename.rpm is the correct way.
correct. to clarify a little: .tgz and .tar.gz are functionally the same kind of file on GNUish unix systems--in practice they behave the exact same. For example, 'gunzip foo.tgz' will uncompress the file foo.tgz, and automagically rename it 'foo.tar'. (This is a feature of gzip.) Aaron > > nate > > On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote: > > mcrobe >hi > mcrobe > > mcrobe >Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to > .tar.gz. > mcrobe >The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the > closest > mcrobe >thing listed is "alien -t [file]" which produces [file].tgz ... > mcrobe > > mcrobe >tks > mcrobe >Andrew > mcrobe > > mcrobe >------------------------------------------------- > mcrobe >Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) > mcrobe >IT Officer, School of Law > mcrobe >MURDOCH UNIVERSITY > mcrobe >Perth, Western Australia > mcrobe >Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] > mcrobe >Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] > mcrobe >e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > mcrobe >"The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math" > mcrobe > > mcrobe > > mcrobe >-- > mcrobe >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > mcrobe > > > ::: > http://www.aphroland.org/ > http://www.linuxpowered.net/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 10:31pm up 22 days, 6:08, 1 user, load average: 0.27, 0.12, 0.03 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
