Charlie Zender wrote: >Hi, > >What is the recommended way to install the Intel Fortran and C/C++ >compilers on Debian? They come as a set of RPMs. The RPMs do not >install on my Debian system, because there are no RPMs installed >on my Debian system so it can't find any pre-requisites: > >error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) > >I suppose I could try to find where the RPMs want to install their >contents, and then try to install them myself manually. >This sounds dangerous and error-prone, however. >I gather this is a FAQ, "what to do when you have an RPM you want >to install on a Debian system?", but I could not find the answer.
Google on "Installing RPMs on Debian HOWTO" yields a lot of hits. The key is the package "alien". [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show alien Package: alien Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 212 Maintainer: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 8.24 Depends: debhelper (>= 3), perl (>= 5.6.0-16), rpm (>= 2.4.4-2), dpkg-dev, make, cpio Suggests: patch, bzip2, lsb-rpm, lintian Filename: pool/main/a/alien/alien_8.24_all.deb Size: 113412 MD5sum: ac232fe4e3ef90229f48c5522e005297 Description: install non-native packages with dpkg Alien allows you to convert LSB, Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages into Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg. . It can also generate packages of any of the other formats. . This is a tool only suitable for binary packages. HTH -- gt [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Well, you order it from the 'Society of Hardware and Information Technology Helpers, Executive Administration Division' website - you're a member aren't you?"--BOFH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]