Re: rpms

[Remco van de Meent <remco@debian.org>]

On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 10:51:06AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote:

 : Is there any way to install a redhat rpm on a debian system?

Convert them using alien to .deb format:

Package: alien
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 109
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 6.26
Depends: debhelper, perl (>= 5.004)
Recommends: rpm (>= 2.4.4-2), dpkg-dev, make
Suggests: patch, bzip2
Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/admin/alien_6.26.deb
Size: 42074
MD5sum: 3ae2a7e239201bdfebcb95f2c152ab6f
Description: Install Red Hat, Stampede, and Slackware Packages with dpkg.
 Alien allows you to convert Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages into
 Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg.
 .
 It can also convert into Slackware, Red Hat, and Stampede packages.
 .
 This is a tool only suitable for binary packages.



Cheers,
 -Remco