On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 08:16:08AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Travis Crump wrote: > >Kent West wrote: > >>Wow! You're right; I didn't know about the rpm command being on > >>Debian. But sure enough, it's on my box, and the man page says > >>indicates that it'll install rpms. > > > >The man page is lying. rpm is there to be used by alien and to build > >rpms, it can't install packages because the rpm package database > >doesn't exist. If you try to create an rpm package database in order > >to get it to work, don't expect your system to stay unbroken for long. > > So you're saying that if you have an .rpm, you should not try to install > it via rpm, but rather convert it to a .deb using alien (which uses rpm > in the background), and then install the resulting .deb?
Correct. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
