Rob Weir wrote: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 11:21:03PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > I have this myself, and the installation scripts use 'rpm' to attempt > > the installation, which on Debian just won't work, period. It *could* be > > done by editing the installation scripts to replace 'rpm' with 'alien' > > for any actual installation calls. While the LSB is a great solution to > > You could write a script that runs something like: > > alien -t deb $2 && dpkg -i `echo "$2"|sed -e 's/\.deb$/\.rpm/' > > and drop it in your $PATH so it's run instead of the normal 'rpm'. Or > something. ITYM #!/bin/sh PATH=/path/to/real/rpm:$PATH alien $@ May not work for all rpm commands, but it will for -i. -- see shy jo
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