Emerging app-arch/alien and converting to tgz might be an option.
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 07:04 pm, Vincent van de Camp wrote:
> You may be able to install the rpms with the --force flag, and if that
> doesn't work, try the --nodeps flag, which turns off dependency
> checking. That has always worked for me.
>
> Brian Reichholf wrote:
> >*sigh* oh, the joy of rpm's, how annoying :/
> >
> >i am trying to install some commercial software which unfortunately is
> >only available as an RPM (to my knowlege - at least i have the rpms...)
> >
> >strangely enough though after emergeing rpm and executing rpm -ihv
> ><package>.rpm it tells me that i don't fulful the requirements (i
> >manually checked.. and i *do* have all the .so's required - it doesn't
> >ask for packages, just so's)
> >
> >any suggestions?
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