answered just to move it above the spam
On 26 Nov, 23:35, linuxonbute <[email protected]> wrote:
> Debian/Ubuntu uses apt and apt needs .deb files.
>
> If you tried to use rpm to install a .deb file you would probably have
> the same problem.
>
> However alien will at least attempt to read a .rpm file and make
> a .deb file which you can then
> install.
>
> Have you got the universe and multiverse repositories set up?
> What you want may be in one of them.
>
> On 26 Nov, 10:34, ticktick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Thank you, Icebreaker. But is that all?
> > So far, I only have a half system.
> > There are obviously more programs I can't install with synaptic.
> > For example, I need the plugin for Java applets in my browsers. I
> > opened a web page with containing an applet and the opportunity to
> > download the plugin was shown to me. But when I download the rpm file,
> > debian doesn't now what to do with it. (My old Fedora was much more
> > intelligent.) I asked synaptic to install rpm (and yum), but debian
> > still doesn't know what to do. (Allright, there is the shell command
> > for rpm, but I don't want to do that for every following program.) I
> > gave up and installed the other alternative for the plugin
> > installation: the bin file. But again, debian doesn't know what to do
> > with it. Stupid computer.
> > At this stage, I consider another attempt to install (K)ubuntu again,
> > which I was running for some days. But with KDE 4.1 things only looked
> > nice for a while and I ran into problems. So I thought I try a stable
> > and solid debian. And now this... I am pretty lost.
>
> > On 26 nov, 10:54, Icebreaker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > This is not a good practice. You either use Debian and the Debian
> > > Repositories or Ubuntu and the Ubuntu Repos.
>
> > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:42 AM, ticktick
> > > <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> > > > Yesterday I finally managed to install the latest debian version on my
> > > > workstation. But now I need to add some programs that are not listed
> > > > in synaptic, but which I can find e.g. onhttp://packages.ubuntu.com
> > > > (hardy or intrepid). So I tried to add some ubuntu repositories to
> > > > the /ect/apt/sources.list by attaching lines like
> > > > debhttp://archive.ubuntucom/ubuntuhardyuniversemultiverse
> > > > etc. But when I start synaptic again, it complains and I have to
> > > > remove the new lines again to let it start properly again. What do I
> > > > need to do?
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