Re: rpm

[Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu>]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:40:01 +0200, ChadDavis wrote:

> I'm doing some software development that uses RPM packages.  I would
> like to have RPM installed on my debian system for trivial and
> development only usage.  In other words, I don't really plan to manage
> my system with it at all; i just want to use it for my dev purposes.
> 
> My question is whether this is a problem.  Will it somehow corrupt my
> deb system to simply install RPM and use it to play with the odd rpm
> package? <div dir="ltr">I&#39;m doing some software development that
> uses RPM packages.  I would like to have RPM installed on my debian
> system for trivial and development only usage.  In other words, I
> don&#39;t really plan to manage my system with it at all; i just want to
> use it for my dev purposes. <div> <br></div><div>My question is whether
> this is a problem.  Will it somehow corrupt my deb system to simply
> install RPM and use it to play with the odd rpm
> package?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>

Have you tried the "alien" package?  This converts rpms to debs, thereby 
not confusing the packaging system.