Re: Installing Intel compiler RPMs on Debian

[Barry deFreese <bddebian@cox.net>]

Charlie Zender wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What is the recommended way to install the Intel Fortran and C/C++
> compilers on Debian? They come as a set of RPMs. The RPMs do not
> install on my Debian system, because  there are no RPMs installed
> on my Debian system so it can't find any pre-requisites:
>
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)
>
> I suppose I could try to find where the RPMs want to install their 
> contents, and then try to install them myself manually.
> This sounds dangerous and error-prone, however.
> I gather this is a FAQ, "what to do when you have an RPM you want
> to install on a Debian system?", but I could not find the answer.
>
> Any tips appreciated,
> Charlie
>  
You could try to use alien to turn it into a "deb".  I used alien with 
rpm's for drivers for a Digiboard and had pretty good luck.  As for the 
db3 error, there is a Debian package for db3 if it is required. 
"apt-cache search db3"

Good luck,

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