htyj wrote: > I used alien like the following: > > alien -d xxxx.rpm > > but an error msg was printed out: > > sh: cpio command not found. > > I've installed rpm, debmake, gcc, make,etc. > Is there any other packages needed? If not, how to deal with this problem? You need to install cpio. But, this is interesting, I didn't think rpm used cpio anymore. Please send me the output of "rpm --version" -- see shy jo, alien maintainer