On 04/08/2012 11:14 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > 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
http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/ Grab source package compile and have at it? -- Benjamin Kerensa "I am what I am because Team Lead, Ubuntu Oregon of who we all are" - Ubuntu [email protected] http://ubuntu-oregon.org _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
