>I'm trying to install a software-package on Debian potato. It's "Novell >NDS 8.5". The good thing is, that it needs a 2.2-kernel and glibc >v.2.1.3, exactly what potato comes with. But: I'm unable to install that >program, because it's installation is really dirty. On the install-CD, >there are lots of *.rpms, which are installed by some obscure >install-script (not directly with rpm). Now the problem is, that the >installation breaks, because it says, some packages are not installed >(glibc not found, /bin/sh not found etc). But they are installed, I >think "rpm" is just not aware of that. Is there a way to tell rpm (maybe >with alien?), what packages/files are installed (eventhough they are >*.deb packages?).
well what i'd do would be to copy the cd to disk, alienise the rpm's to deb edit the script changing .rpm to .deb and rpm -i to dpkg -i and take it for a spin.... but i'd do a good backup first
