Re: Alien to .tar.gz

To: Andrew McRobert <mcrobert@central.murdoch.edu.au>
Cc: "Debian-Users $E-mail$" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Alien to .tar.gz
From: "nate@firetrail.com" <nate@firetrail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 22:32:27 -0700 (PDT)
Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008082232120.22554-100000@galactica.firetrail.com>
In-reply-to: <001301c001af$6ad85180$27e27386@murdoch.edu.au>

alien -t filename.rpm is the correct way.

nate

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote:

mcrobe >hi
mcrobe >
mcrobe >Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz.
mcrobe >The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest
mcrobe >thing listed is "alien -t [file]" which produces [file].tgz ...
mcrobe >
mcrobe >tks
mcrobe >Andrew
mcrobe >
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