On 23 August 2010 14:00, Rakesh Pandit <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 23 August 2010 11:24, Arun Prakash wrote: > > > > Hello , > > > > I already tried installing deb to rpm , but i found some dependency > errors , > > > > [r...@localhost Desktop]# rpm -ivh deb-1.10.27-3.i586.rpm > > error: Failed dependencies: > > perl = 5.8.6 is needed by deb-1.10.27-3.i586 > > update-alternatives is needed by deb-1.10.27-3.i586 > > [r...@localhost Desktop]# > > > [..] > > perl-5.10.1 is available for fedora right now. perl = 5.8.6 is a hard > version dependency and fedora latest releases are far ahead. > > If update-alternative is a command for maintaining symbolic links, > then chkconfig provides it and is present in fedora repositories. > > If you really want to trust on this deb package (and rpm which you > made from it) and want to try it out. Then I would also suggest to go > ahead one more step and try with latest perl and update-alternative > from chkconfig package once and share with whether it worked for > you. For installing latest perl and chkconfig yum or packagekit are > your friends. For trying it out with perl 5.10.1 --nodeps with rpm is > one way to install and there are other ways. > > I take no responsibility for consequences if you are trying out my > suggestion ;) and in process mess up your system. > > Thanks, > > Note: It would be great if you can send text messages to list. > > Regards, > > -- > Rakesh Pandit > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rakesh > freedom, friends, features, first > > May be you can try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(software) it will help you convert the .deb into .rpm -H
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