Re: newbie alien question

["Jorge Sousa" <jorge.sousa@ipj.pt>]

hi Shaleh,


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

I know, I'm trying to install Enlightenment window manager, and a lot of
packages are needed so as some of them are only in rpm format, I've
downloaded all the required rpms and thought alien would install them but I
was wrong.

I just tried zlib in the first place, then I did the same with the  other
but unfortunatly the results were all the same.

Right now I've downloaded the sources and I'm compiling everything but to be
honest don't think  enlightenment will run.


But, coming back to the question, do you know how to alienize a rpm package?


Note: for what matters i'm a linux rookie, just been playing with the system
for a month and I'm really, really amazed about the amount of information,
software and general stuff one can find on the net about linux.  the more i
look into it the more I loose interest on my PC.

thanks.


Jorge Sousa


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