Hi. I'm converting a commercial rpm using alien so I can install it in
Debian (kernel 2.4.7). During the conversion alien reports warnings but does
make a deb. When I go to load the installed program it loads the splash
screen but eventually croaks, apparently because not all the shared libs
were installed. Using ldd on the program I see I'm missing a bunch of shared
libs.
When alien runs against the rpm it generates a bunch of warnings of this
form:
"dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of lib_name.so is not recognized"
where lib_name.so seems to be each of a bunch of proprietary libs that
rpm -qlp says are in the rpm file. What's alien trying to tell me, and where
do I go from here? I can't find the libs named on my system.
Is there another way to force the install of the rpm? I tried using rpm
instead of dpkg, but it objects that I have no db3 Packages database that it
can
open. I've never used rpm before, or alien either.
I discovered a link on the Internet to a utility called rpm2tar, which
seemed like it might be another route. But, I can't find the actual program.
Ideas?
Cheers,
Robin
