Re: alien problem
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 16:42, Dan Stefan Rundberget wrote:
>Yes that helped with mplayer, but there are many rpm's in the world.
> I suppose alien works, and I'm doing som thing wrong.
>Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>Here's my original message:
>I'm trying to convert rpms to debs without luck
>input:
>'alien -d mplayer-1.0pre6-1.i386.rpm'
>error output:
>chown: can not change ownerhisp , operation not permitted
>(I get loooooooooooooooots of this reffering to different
> directories, spessialy /usr/share/*)
>Use of uninitialized value in die at
>/usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package/Deb.pm line 488.
>Package build failed. Here's the log:
>find: mplayer-1.0pre6: Ingen slik fil eller filkatalog
My guess is that you'll need to be root to do that.
>Using debian Sarge for x86.
>
>Thank You In Avance!
>
>Alan Chandler skrev:
>>On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 19:31 +0100, Dan Stefan Rundberget wrote:
>>Instead of getting mplayer via alien, why don't you add the
>> following into you /etc/apt/sources.list
>>deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ testing main
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