Re: newbie alien question

[Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net>]

Not to take away from your question BUT, why use the rpm?  We have zlib
in Debian.

Jorge Sousa wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to use alien to install a rpm (zlib-1.1.2.i386.rpm) file and I
> get  the following error:
> 
> Data type 9 not supported
> error querying rpm file.
> 
> I've Tried
>  > alien -n file
>  > rpm -i file
> but got the same result.
> 
> Is there any work around?
> What am I missing??
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Jorge Sousa.
> 
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