Re: Help with Alien

1999-05-12 Thread Kirk Noonan
> Can anyone give me a quick tutorial on how to use dpkg to install rpm's > with alien? Thanks... The simplest way is: 'alien -i packagename.rpm' otherwise 'man alien' Kirk

Re: Help with Alien

1999-05-10 Thread budi wibowo
convert the rpm to deb with alien -d rpm_package it will create the_deb_file then dpkg -i the_deb_file budi wibowo informatics eng [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 9-5-99 at 19.32 Jayson Baird wrote: >Can anyone give me a quick tutorial on how to use dpkg to insta

Re: Help with Alien

1999-05-10 Thread Andrew Chung
> Can anyone give me a quick tutorial on how to use dpkg to install rpm's > with alien? Thanks... alien -i some-prog.rpm to install alien some-prog.rpm to turn into deb for more info look at man alien -- Andrew Chung[EMAIL PROTECTED] See http://anderoo.dhs.org/~anderoo/pgp.h

Re: Help with Alien

1999-05-09 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Can anyone give me a quick tutorial on how to use dpkg to install rpm's > with alien? Thanks... [prompt]# alien -i somepackage.rpm This will convert and install the RPM file. An easier way to get a quick tutorial on alien would by to type 'man alien' at the promp