Congrats about Paraguay's soccer victory over Brazil (I don't know
if you follow that.)
I understand that you can convert to and from these various packages
using a program called Alien; I haven't used it myself, but
have heard good things about it. Following is a blurb about it
that I found on http://freshmeat.net
Alien
nitemare <nitemare at ipass.net> - March 10th 1998, 19:26 EST
Alien converts between the rpm, deb, Stampede slp, and Slackware tgz file formats.
If you want to use a package from
another distribution than the one you have installed on your system, you can use
alien to convert it to your preferred
package format and install it.
urls
Download:
http://kitenet.net/programs/code/alien/alien.tar.gz (7652
hits)
Red Hat Packages:
http://kitenet.net/programs/RPMS.cgi#alien (3839 hits)
Debian Packages:
http://kitenet.net/programs/debs.cgi#alien (501 hits)
Homepage:
http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/ (7793 hits)
Changelog:
http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/CHANGES (314 hits)
information
Stable Version:
7.2
Author:
Joey Hess <joey at kitenet.net>
License:
GPL
Category:
Console/Packaging
Appindex ID:
889576015
Comments (4)
Fuzzy Logic <JesseAlter at forpresident.com> - September 19th 1998, 15:55 EST
Now here's something quite useful! A lot of software is released as tarballed
source, and if you want binaries, they only
offer it in RedHat format. The sign of a very good programmer is one that can find
something that needs to be made.
Scorpion <dejan at prontomail.com> - October 26th 1998, 11:45 EST
Very good. BTW, this is part of a standard distribution for Debian. Way to go!
excellent program
dk1 <dk1 at wvinter.net> - February 22nd 1999, 15:30 EST
Very nice program
It's saved me over 100 hours of re-downloading (-=
Cool one !
Urivan Saaib <llanero at c-ber.net> - May 16th 1999, 07:55 EST
More than saving download time, you can save compiling (make) time !...
Now i can go to a nearest FTP site with Redhat packages and install them into my
slackware laptop!
* Renaud OLGIATI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000719 13:27]:
> Am I in a nightmare ?
>
> I would like to install on my Mandrake system (which is a variant of RH from
> what I hear) the Wordperfect which resides on my Corel Linux CD.
>
> WP comes as a .deb file.
>
> So I need dpkg to install it
>
> But the only dpkg I have is also in a .deb file ;-(
>
> HEEEELP !
>
> TIA,
>
> Ron the Frog, freezing on the sunny banks of the Paraguay River.
>
> --
>
> Anarchy may not be the best form of government,
> but it's better than no government at all.
>
> --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
>
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