Re: Help: cannot use alien

1998-09-05 Thread Joey Hess
htyj wrote: I used alien like the following: alien -d .rpm but an error msg was printed out: sh: cpio command not found. I've installed rpm, debmake, gcc, make,etc. Is there any other packages needed? If not, how to deal with this problem? You need to install cpio. But, this

Help: cannot use alien

1998-09-04 Thread htyj
I used alien like the following: alien -d .rpm but an error msg was printed out: sh: cpio command not found. I've installed rpm, debmake, gcc, make,etc. Is there any other packages needed? If not, how to deal with this problem?

Re: Help: cannot use alien

1998-09-04 Thread M.C. Vernon
I used alien like the following: alien -d .rpm but an error msg was printed out: sh: cpio command not found. Exactly what it says - install cpio pick:/$ dpkg -s cpio Package: cpio Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: utils Installed-Size: 114 Maintainer: