Re: alien question

[Mitch Blevins <mblevin@mindspring.com>]

In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> Hi, 
> 	when I try to use alien to convert to a rpm file, I got the following:
> 
> 	alien: 822-date did not return a valid result.
> 
> 	Could someone please help me??

Actually, the full text message of the error is:

alien: 822-date did not return a valid result.  You probably need to
intall the dpkg-dev debian package.

So, the obvious question(s) is(are):
Did you install the dpkg-dev package?
What happens when you type "822-date"?
What is the result of "which 822-date"?

-Mitch