Re: [*] rpm to deb
bart@gigabee.com (Bart Szyszka) wrote:
>> i saw a litter form this list, it said there are some tools can
>> conver the rpm pakage to deb pakage. but can it work well?
>
>I'm very impressed with the 'alien' package (apt-get install alien). A
>couple people who suggested that I try it told me that it isn't
>entirely reliable, but so far I've only had two or three RPMs that
>didn't convert perfectly and two of those I was able to get working
>anyway (they just installed the programs in a different folder than the
>bin one so all I had to do was move it to /usr/bin or something like
>that). One program not working out of a buttload is nothing. Alien is
>very good.
Yeah, it's less a problem of converting from .rpm to .deb than of
converting from Red Hat to Debian package standards.
By the way, to the original poster, your mail headers cause trn to
segfault when trying to read them. This is undoubtedly a bug in trn, but
I'm not volunteering to fix it; I'm not in any state to try to diagnose
it at the moment, either ... If you could simplify them (probably by
making your From: header plain ASCII as opposed to containing weird
control characters) it would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]
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