Re: Applixware and alien
>Has anyone tried installing Applixware 4.3 using alien? I installed
>alien from unstable, which has the appropriate patchfile. When I try
>installing Applixware, I get the following errors:
> cannot open package: No such file or directory
> cpio: premature end of archive
> Error unpacking applix-4.3-1.i386.rpm
I did this a few days ago. It appeared to be very simply. I installed
alien, cpio and rpm and then just converted the .rpm packages to .deb
packages and installed them using dpkg.
It worked fine.
Adam.
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