viavoice installation question - debian

[Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org>]

dear all,

i'm installing ibm's viavoice on debian woody.  in converting the rpm
package ViaVoice_runtime-3.0-1.2.i386.rpm to a deb package using alien,
i'm getting the following error:


dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of libviavoiceps.so not recognized
BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: dl-version.c: 217: _dl_check_map_versions:
Assertion `needed != ((void *)0)' failed!
dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/lib/ViaVoice/bin/vvuser'
gave error exit status 1
dh_shlibdeps: command returned error code
make: [binary-arch] Error 1 (ignored)
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${shlibs:Depends}

viavoice-runtime_3.0-2.2_i386.deb generated


does this mean the conversion passed or failed?  i have two options--install
this deb package or just install the native rpm package.

anyone care to comment what the best course of action is here?

thanks!
pete

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