Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: > You could install the rpm package and use rpm2cpio to convert the .rpm > file into a cpio file. From there, you could extract the files from the > cpio file and copy them into the correct locations for a Debian system. > > Another option, which I consider risky, would be to install the alien > package and use the alien command to convert the .rpm into a .deb. Alien > is experimental software; it might screw up your system--do not use. Alien is program that runs rpm2cpio on a rpm file and generates a deb file from it. Suggesting that it would somehow be safer to to this by hand makes no sense at all. Alien is also not anywhere near experimental, having been used by many people for ten years. -- see shy jo, its author
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