Not the deep space kind; the penguin kind. Ages ago, in my Ubuntu days, I used alien a few times to convert an .rpm to a .deb package. Once or twice it actually worked. And I dimly recall that it was supposed to work the other direction as well.
So here I am today on Fedora needing to install a program that is available only as a .deb package, or install from source. I have tried installing from source half a dozen times in the past, and have yet to do so successfully. Installing from source is a last ditch desperation effort. It would be a lot easier if I could convert the .deb package to an .rpm package. Not only is alien not installed on my Fedora 16 computer, but it is not even in the repos. I searched (with Yumex) on ".deb" and found that both apt and dpkg were in the repos, so I installed them. The information for each package in Yumex was not clear about exactly what purpose they might serve on a Fedora computer, but I did quickly discover that dpkg (not surprisingly) will not install a .deb file. Is there an equivalent of alien that I can use on an .rpm based distro? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
