Re: Installing Intel compiler RPMs on Debian
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.
Google on "Installing RPMs on Debian HOWTO" yields a lot of hits. The
key is the package "alien".
gt@koko:~$ apt-cache show alien
Package: alien
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 212
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 8.24
Depends: debhelper (>= 3), perl (>= 5.6.0-16), rpm (>= 2.4.4-2),
dpkg-dev, make, cpio
Suggests: patch, bzip2, lsb-rpm, lintian
Filename: pool/main/a/alien/alien_8.24_all.deb
Size: 113412
MD5sum: ac232fe4e3ef90229f48c5522e005297
Description: install non-native packages with dpkg
Alien allows you to convert LSB, Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware
Packages
into Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg.
.
It can also generate packages of any of the other formats.
.
This is a tool only suitable for binary packages.
HTH
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