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François Obada wrote:
alessandro basili wrote:

Thanks a lot for your answer. Do you have any experiences in getting rpm packets on debian? do you think is possible to use a software designed for RedHat on Debian?

There is a package called 'alien'. With this is it possible to install individual software packages from rpm archieves etc. (Ie. convert the rpm-format to debian format and install).

If your application has no special requirements on things like exact kernel version, special libraries, kernel modules etc. there's a good chance it will work out of the box.

To quote from the manual:

DESCRIPTION
alien is a program that converts between Red Hat rpm, Debian deb,
Stampede slp, Slackware tgz, and Solaris
pkg file formats. If you want to use a package from another linux
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.
It also supports LSB packages.

WARNING
Despite the high version number, alien is still (and will probably
always be) rather experimental soft-
ware. It's been under development for many years now, but there are
still many bugs and limitations.

alien should not be used to replace important system packages, like
init, libc, or other things that are
essential for the functioning of your system. Many of these packages are
set up differently by the differ-
ent distributions, and packages from the different distributions cannot
be used interchangeably. In gen-
eral, if you can't remove a package without breaking your system, don't
try to replace it with an alien
version.



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