Teilhard Knight wrote:
I guess you are right. I tried today to install as a root using rpm, and I got the reply you say: "database doesn't exist". Is alien in the distribution of Debian or should I grab it apart? I think I'll have a look.
Leo Spalteholz wrote:
I've never had much luck installing anything with alien. Unless it's something trivial, it will usually be broken in some way after install..
Tielhard Knight wrote:
Any suggestions, then? I have been able to get the drivers in a .tar.gz compressed file they say generically is for Linux, not what distribution. Guess I'll have to find what to do with them. Thanks.
There's no harm in trying alien; if it doesn't work, you can fall back to using the tarball'ed version.
apt-get install alien alien --to-deb foo.rpm dpkg -i foo.deb Kent