Re: converting rpms to deb
"Aldous B Bernardo" <aldous@edsamail.com.ph> writes:
> Why is it that alien says that it can only convert ver. 3 RPMs into
> deb? I tried converting my RPMs from Mandrake 8.0 and RH 7.2 into deb,
> but alien says it can't convert decause it is version 4 and it can
> only convert version 3. I tried installing it instead by using RPM
> into my Potato. RPM says that it cannot install ver 4 only version
> 3. So I tried installing RPM ver 4 from an rpm... it didn't work. it
> was also version 4. How can I use my RPMs in Debian? do I need the
> source of RPM?
The best thing to do is to find debs for the packages. Almost
everything is already packaged for Debian, though not everything is
available for potato. Check http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages .
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Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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