Re: RPM to deb package conversion

[joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)]

> 	
> According to the announcement for Debian 1.3 at the Debian web site,
> dpkg can now be used to install RPM files (at least that's how I read it).
> I upgraded to 1.3, but I don't see anything about this in the dpkg docs or
> man page.  I tried it on an rpm file ( dpkg -i something.rpm) but it didn't
> work.
> 
> Anybody know how to use dpkg to install rpm packages?

Install the alien package. Then:

alien(1L)                                               alien(1L)


NAME
       alien - Convert or install an alien binary package

SYNOPSIS
       alien [--to-deb] [--patch=file] [options] file
       alien --to-rpm [options] file


-- 
joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
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#what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/


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