Re: rpm

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. >

Re: rpm

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 w

Re: rpm file

Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: > From the alien man-page (on Sarge): > > >WARNING > > Despite the high version number, alien is still (and will probably > > always be) rather experimental software. It's been under > > development > > for many years now, but th

Re: rpm file

Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > >> >> Alien is program that runs rpm2cpio on a rpm file and generates a deb >> file from it. > > > I know. > >> Suggesting that it would somehow be safer to to this by > >> hand makes no sense at all. > > > Yes it does. If I d

Re: rpm file

Joey Hess wrote: Alien is program that runs rpm2cpio on a rpm file and generates a deb file from it. I know. > Suggesting that it would somehow be safer to to this by hand makes no sense at all. Yes it does. If I did it by hand, I know that the right thing got put in the right place. Eit

Re: rpm file

Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > As far as I can see, the rpm file does not have to be converted. Simply > install the 'rpm' package (e.g. with Synaptic) and let the W4L installer > install the rpm file. Using two package manages (dpkg and rpm) on one system is a horribly bad idea. They won't know about e

Re: rpm file

Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: > You could install the rpm package and use rpm2cpio to convert the .rpm > file into a cpio file. From there, you could extract the files from the > cpio file and copy them into the correct locations for a Debian system. > > Another option, which I con

Re: rpm file

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 08:27 -0500 "Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)" wrote: > gianni wrote: > > > Ihave problems installing W4L,cuse rpm file is not posible to > > convert to debian. [...] > > You could install the rpm package and use rpm2cpio to convert the .rpm > file into a cpio file. From

Re: rpm file

gianni wrote: Ihave problems installing W4L,cuse rpm file is not posible to convert to debian. [...] You could install the rpm package and use rpm2cpio to convert the .rpm file into a cpio file. From there, you could extract the files from the cpio file and copy them into the correct locat

Re: rpm file

gianni wrote: > > > Ihave problems installing W4L,cuse rpm file is not posible to convert > to debian.I followed instructions I found here,but no luck.Can anybudy > help me to solve this problem? > To convert an RPM to DEB format, use alien. I have not used W4L, but you may want to consider

Re: rpm -qp --scripts ... dpkg/debian equivalent?

Matthew Lenz wrote: > is there an equivalent command for dpkg to: rpm -qp --scripts .. which > prints the contents of the post/pre-[un]install scripts ? dpkg-deb -I foo.deb config preinst postinst prerm postrm -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: rpm

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:58:40 +0100, Giorgio Raccanelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I need to install a driver for my ATI Radeon 9600. I found at the > following URL > > http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html?type=linux&prodType=graphic&prod=productsLINUXdriver&submi

Re: rpm

Giorgio Raccanelli wrote: > I need to install a driver for my ATI Radeon 9600. I found at the > following URL the driver I'm looking for, but it is a .rpm file. Can I use > it in Debian? apt-cache show alien Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: 'rpm --freshen': dpkg Equivalent?

ne> if (dpkg -l package-name | grep -c ii ) dpkg -i ./package.deb; Though I might again consider using 'apt-zip', a slight variation of the above should do what I need ... Thanks, Niels! -Kenneth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: 'rpm --freshen': dpkg Equivalent?

Hi. This isn't a silly question at all. For a long time I would use dselect to just update the list of available packages, then I have to view them just to get back out to the prompt to "update". However, this will do the same: apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade The first updates the list of av

Re: 'rpm --freshen': dpkg Equivalent?

On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 11:05:01 -0500 Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I use 'dpkg' to install a new .deb, but *only* if the package > is already on a machine? With RPM, you can use the "freshen" option > ("-F" or "--freshen"). But how with 'dpkg'? > > In other words: > o If t

Re: 'rpm --freshen': dpkg Equivalent?

On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 13:06 -0500, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > jh> why would you just one specific package to be updated? > > Sorry I didn't explain more. Here's the situation ... > > I have an office machine, O, and a home machine, H both using > sarge/testing. O has a high-speed connection to t

Re: 'rpm --freshen': dpkg Equivalent?

jh> why would you just one specific package to be updated? Sorry I didn't explain more. Here's the situation ... I have an office machine, O, and a home machine, H both using sarge/testing. O has a high-speed connection to the Internet, but H doesn't. After "updating" O, I copy all the .deb

Re: 'rpm --freshen': dpkg Equivalent?

* Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041107 17:42]: > * Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041107 17:05]: > > How can I use 'dpkg' to install a new .deb, but *only* if the package > > is already on a machine? With RPM, you can use the "freshen" option > > ("-F" or "--freshen"). But how with

Re: 'rpm --freshen': dpkg Equivalent?

* Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041107 17:05]: > How can I use 'dpkg' to install a new .deb, but *only* if the package > is already on a machine? With RPM, you can use the "freshen" option > ("-F" or "--freshen"). But how with 'dpkg'? The only way I know (got through the package localepur

Re: 'rpm --freshen': dpkg Equivalent?

Kenneth Jacker wrote: How can I use 'dpkg' to install a new .deb, but *only* if the package is already on a machine? With RPM, you can use the "freshen" option ("-F" or "--freshen"). But how with 'dpkg'? In other words: o If the package is already installed, then update it o If the package is

Re: rpm packages Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 02:41:08PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have 2 rpm packages that I want to install on a Sarge system. Can someone > give me a hint or a link as to how to do that. > Michael Hi M, the first rule of DEBIAN club is to use .

Re: rpm packages Debian

On August 12, 2004 02:41 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have 2 rpm packages that I want to install on a Sarge system. Can someone > give me a hint or a link as to how to do that. > Michael You can convert them to debs using alien command and then install the debs: apt-get install alien alient -

Re: rpm packages Debian

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have 2 rpm packages that I want to install on a Sarge system. Can someone > give me a hint or a link as to how to do that. alien might be able to convert them to .debs for you. pgpieaqieoalo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: rpm packages Debian

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 14:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have 2 rpm packages that I want to install on a Sarge system. Can someone > give me a hint or a link as to how to do that. > Michael Try alien -i filename.rpm signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: rpm and Debian

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 03:32:57PM -0400, Lee Hanxue wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 2004 00:58:58 -0500 > dircha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [1] http://packages.debian.org > > [2] http://apt-get.org > > [3] http://www.backports.org > > [4] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ > > [5] http://lists.d

Re: rpm and Debian

On Thu, 13 May 2004 00:58:58 -0500 dircha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [1] http://packages.debian.org > [2] http://apt-get.org > [3] http://www.backports.org > [4] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ > [5] http://lists.debian.org > Not to forget http://mentors.debian.net You might be able t

Re: rpm and Debian

Rick wrote: Can I use rpm command to access deb DB? rpm is available in the Debian package of the same name (rpm). However, any packages you install with the rpm command will not be managed by the Debian package management system. .deb is the native package format of a Debian system. You can at

Re: rpm packages - alien

Thanks to Martin for the tip about sources.list and Rui for the How-To. Using both, I now got the Radeon 9200 up and running. Thanks again, Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rpm packages - alien

Rui Nóbrega wrote: # alien -d fglrx-glc22-4.2.0-2.9.13.i586.rpm # dpkg -i --force-overwrite fglrx-glc22_4.2.0-3.9_i386.deb Don't forget: # cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod # ./make.sh # cd .. # ./make_install.sh Backup your current XF86Config-4 file just to be on the safe side. Then run the confi

Re: rpm packages - alien

Hi, "apt-get update" should do the trick and do not forget to add the Debian FTP-Server (or any mirror nearby) to your /etc/apt/sources.list. MJ On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 10:13, Uwe Dippel wrote: > I have to install am rpm-package (Radeon driver) in Woody. > Newbie as I am, I found alien to use rpm

RE: rpm packages - alien

I installed the drivers for a Radeon 9000 on my laptop an Acer Aspire 1600. I got the information from this site http://1601lc.tuxfamily.org/english.html Here is how I did it. Woody comes with Xfree86 version 4.1.x so i downloaded fglrx-glc22-4.1.0-3.2.5.i586.rpm from the ati site. # alien -d f

Re: rpm packages - alien

Hi, * Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031002 17:24]: > I have to install am rpm-package (Radeon driver) in Woody. > Newbie as I am, I found alien to use rpms. > But an apt-get install alien gets me > Package alien has no available version, but exists in the database. > This typically means that th

Re: rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc

shorton wrote: > Greetings: > > Another RH to Debian convert question... > > I'm used to rpm but clueless about apt, etc. I've mostly gotten the > hang of dselect I think. > > Can someone tell me the equivilant these commands, and/or what to run > to get the desired result: > > rpm -qa = show

Re: rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc

On 03-09-30 12:29 -0400, Angus D Madden wrote: > shorton, Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:23:14AM -0500: > > rpm -q --whatprovides = tell me what package provided program > > x > > If the package is installed: > > dpkg -S > > If the package is not installed, you can grab the Contents-$arch.gz

Re: rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc

Angus D. Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >shorton, Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:23:14AM -0500: >> >>Can someone tell me the equivilant these commands, and/or what to run >>to get the desired result: >> >>rpm -qa = show all packages installed? > >Use one of: > >dpkg -l >dpkg --get-selections > >> >>

Re: rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:59:14 +0200 Chris Niekel wrote: > > I once grabbed a function from somewhere: > packageof() { > [ $# = 1 ] && w3m -dump "http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?> > } > > This allows you to do "packageof hello". I very much doubt that. At least, not until you

Re: rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:29:32PM -0400, Angus D Madden wrote: > > rpm -q --whatprovides = tell me what package provided program > > If the package is not installed, you can grab the Contents-$arch.gz file > from one of the debian servers and use zgrep to see what package owns > what file.

Re: rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc

shorton wrote: Greetings: Another RH to Debian convert question... I'm used to rpm but clueless about apt, etc. I've mostly gotten the hang of dselect I think. Can someone tell me the equivilant these commands, and/or what to run to get the desired result: rpm -qa = show all packages installed?

Re: rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc

shorton, Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:23:14AM -0500: > > Can someone tell me the equivilant these commands, and/or what to run > to get the desired result: > > rpm -qa = show all packages installed? Use one of: dpkg -l dpkg --get-selections > > rpm -q --whatprovides = tell me what package pr

Re: rpm -qi eqivalent?

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Maria Rodriguez wrote: > I've got a few different Debian systems that I build random packages on. > I was just wondering if there was a way to determine the system that > built a specific package (like you can get from runnng "rpm -qa" on a RH > system). "dpkg -s" shows me the

Re: RPM and db3

Paul M Foster wrote: > I had the same problem, and I searched the archives back for six months, > and this is about the answer given every time. > > I gotta tell ya, folks, this is a lame answer. You've deliberately > included a _broken_ package in Debian, which is just dumb for the most > technic

Re: RPM and db3

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 12:39:46PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 07:31:06PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > GOOD $DEITY. Do not ever, ever, EVER use rpm on a Debian system. If > > you really, truly cannot get a .deb or tarball of the package, then use > > alien to convert the R

Re: RPM and db3

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 07:31:06PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:34:23AM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > > When I try to run rpm to install an RPM package (yeah, I know), I get > > the following errors, and rpm does nothing: > > > > error: Cannot open Packages index using db3

Re: RPM and db3

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:34:23AM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > When I try to run rpm to install an RPM package (yeah, I know), I get > the following errors, and rpm does nothing: > > error: Cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory > (2) > error: Cannot open Packages datab

Re: rpm

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 06:47:29PM +0300, dizma wrote: > I'm trying to install rav for qmail from rpm package, but I'm getting > the following error: > error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) You can't safely install RPMs using the rpm package in Debian. It's t

Re: rpm: can it comply debian policy?

On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 11:57:39PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > If rpm doesn't preserve ownerships at all, then I think that is a > > design flaw (principle of least astonishment). > > When did anyone say that rpm did not preserve ownership data? I'm trying to find out what

Re: rpm: can it comply debian policy?

> It may work, that's true. But I think it's completely bizarre for a > package to contain ownership information that isn't intended to be > preserved. Agreed. But rpm is not designed to operate in conjunction with dpkg. The two programs are written in isolation. There is no interaction between

Re: rpm: can it comply debian policy?

On Saturday 25 May 2002 05:52 am, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:46:37PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: [snip] > > > > You are probably not seeing it before because many rpms are build as > > root and so the rpm2cpio shows the file as root. But since many build > > rpms as a non-root u

Re: rpm: can it comply debian policy?

On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 09:46:07AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > That sounds mostly like a bug in the .rpm packages to me. Avoiding this > > is exactly why all Debian packages are built with either real root or > > fakeroot; in fact, I think it's why fakeroot was written in the

Re: rpm: can it comply debian policy?

> > > > alien does not respect rpm owner, group, mode on [rpm] files. > > > > So you might alien an rpm and find the files are all owned by > > > > 'bob' instead of 'root' because 'bob' created the rpm. > > > > Whereas if you had installed the file as an rpm the files > > > > would all be correctly

Re: rpm: can it comply debian policy?

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:46:37PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > One thing that my limited experience with alien has shown me, and perhaps > > > someone can correct me, is that alien does not respect rpm owner, group, > > > mode on files. So you might alie

Re: rpm: can it comply debian policy?

> > One thing that my limited experience with alien has shown me, and perhaps > > someone can correct me, is that alien does not respect rpm owner, group, > > mode on files. So you might alien an rpm and find the files are all > > owned by 'bob' instead of 'root' because 'bob' created the rpm. Wh

Re: rpm: can it comply debian policy?

Bob Proulx wrote: > One thing that my limited experience with alien has shown me, and perhaps > someone can correct me, is that alien does not respect rpm owner, group, > mode on files. So you might alien an rpm and find the files are all > owned by 'bob' instead of 'root' because 'bob' created th

Re: rpm: can it comply debian policy?

> Well, there are many custom packages which are developed with rpm. > Suppose all files will go into /usr/local -- most of them will be > shell or perl scripts: what would be the possibility of an rpm > package (using alien) will screw a debian system? One thing that my limited experience with al

Re: rpm: can it comply debian policy?

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 07:19:10PM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > Well, there are many custom packages which are developed with rpm. > Suppose all files will go into /usr/local -- most of them will be > shell or perl scripts: what would be the possibility of an rpm > package (using alien)

Re: rpm: can it comply debian policy?

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 07:25:41AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > > Suppose all files will go into /usr/local -- most of them will be shell > > or perl scripts: what would be the possibility of an rpm package (using > > alien) will screw a debian system? > > As long a

Re: rpm: can it comply debian policy?

> Suppose all files will go into /usr/local -- most of them will be shell > or perl scripts: what would be the possibility of an rpm package (using > alien) will screw a debian system? As long as all the files go into /usr/local the Debian system will not be damaged. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: rpm: can it comply debian policy?

Paul Johnson wrote: >> I would like to know if it is possible at all to create an rpm >> package that complies the debian policy. > Why would you want to do this? Not me, and that's why the question is about the possibility of creating an rpm package that complies the debian policy. Well, the

Re: rpm: can it comply debian policy?

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:41:33AM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote: > I would like to know if it is possible at all to create an rpm > package that complies the debian policy. Why would you want to do this? It would piss off RPM users (who have problems using RPMs from different distros as

Re: "RPM hell" question

> Now you see why apt is just so cool! There really is no other > solution, unless you can make a bot to search rpmfind.net for you. I > see another poster mentioned 'up2date'. I tried that a couple times, > but it wasn't very good. What about Red Carpet? - Camilux ---

Re: rpm broken?

On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 02:31:53AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Jack Howarth wrote: > >Is anyone else seeing this for rpm 4.0.3-4 on any arch? On debian ppc > > sid I am seeing that rpm doesn't honor the --nodeps. If I build an srpm > > and then try to install the resulting .ppc.rpm with 'rpm --fo

Re: "RPM hell" question

dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now you see why apt is just so cool! There really is no other > solution, unless you can make a bot to search rpmfind.net for you. It's called "rpmfind" and is somewhere on rpmfind.net. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Sex is dirt

Re: "RPM hell" question

On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 02:56:45AM -0500, Alec wrote: | Hi | | I was recently asked to help a Redhat user install an RPM file from | rpmfind.net. It had a dozen of unsatisfied dependencies that had their own | unsatisfied dependencies, etc. My only idea was to manually search | rpmfind.net, dow

Re: "RPM hell" question

--- Alec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I was recently asked to help a Redhat user install > an RPM file from > rpmfind.net. It had a dozen of unsatisfied > dependencies that had their own > unsatisfied dependencies, etc. My only idea was to > manually search > rpmfind.net, download the n

Re: RPM [was Re: Certification?]

Submitted 23-Jan-02 by martin f krafft: >>> no. but debian is enough of a clean Linux to make either be a perfect >>> certification for it. both certs require knowledge of RPM though (as >>> well as DEB). >> >> Ouch. Would be nice if RPM didn't suck harder than CAB... > > not entirely true, RPM

Re: RPM ...

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 03:10:49PM -0500, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: > Does anyone know of a really featureful and intelligent > rpm update tool out there, besides these listed? Mandrake's urpmi, which has similar features to apt-get. Though I don't know if you'd get it to work with RedHat.

Re: RPM ...

Jonathan Daugherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know of a really featureful and intelligent rpm update > tool out there, besides these listed? People on redhat lists would really be most likely to know. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Be incomprehens

Re: RPM ...

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: > Sorry to pain everyone with RPM questions, but at work we run all rh6.2 > boxes and we're doing research on finding the best command-line rpm > update tool. > > Does anyone know of a really featureful and intelligent rpm update tool > out there, b

Re: rpm -rebuildb equal for dpkg ?

Bostjan Muller wrote: > I have noticed that installing .deb packages on my laptop (p75/24mb ram) is > getting slower than it used to be... with rpm that usually got fixed by rpm > --rebuildb. Is there any similar equivalent for dpkg ? Installing dpkg 1.9 has similar effects. :-) -- see shy jo

Re: rpm .spec to ../debian

On Sunday 25 February 2001 08:14, Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a quick and dirty way, say a script or utiltiy, to > > convert an rpm .spec file into the ../debian (sub)directory > > needed by build-package and friends? > > Don't know how relevant it is but I would start by l

Re: rpm .spec to ../debian

Shaul Karl wrote: > > Is there a quick and dirty way, say a script or utiltiy, to convert > > an rpm .spec file into the ../debian (sub)directory needed by > > build-package and friends? > > Don't know how relevant it is but I would start by looking at alien: alien --generate is pretty relevant

Re: rpm .spec to ../debian

> Is there a quick and dirty way, say a script or utiltiy, to convert > an rpm .spec file into the ../debian (sub)directory needed by > build-package and friends? > Don't know how relevant it is but I would start by looking at alien: [02:09:32 /tmp]$ grep-available -PX alien Package: alien Pr

Re: rpm .spec to ../debian

On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 02:20:39AM +0800, csj wrote: > Is there a quick and dirty way, say a script or utiltiy, to convert > an rpm .spec file into the ../debian (sub)directory needed by > build-package and friends? > > I see far more redhat sources floating around than their debianiazed > equival

Re: rpm dependencies problem (yes, rpm!)

Phil Brutsche wrote: I'll be honest: I wouldn't trust any of that "Enterprise" stuff to run on any distribution other than the one it was built for: RedHat 6.x. Thanks to all for the answers. Maybe I'll try to debianize the rpms and/or adopt the installscript later. But this way seems really

Re: rpm dependencies problem (yes, rpm!)

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:13:44PM +0100, Tibor D. wrote: > Hi, > 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, beca

Re: rpm dependencies problem (yes, rpm!)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, > I'm trying to install a software-package on Debian potato. It's "Novell > NDS 8.5". Unfortunately, Novell's NDS stuff probably won't run on Debian. Yes, you can debianize the .rpms,

Re: rpm dependencies problem (yes, rpm!)

>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 ar

Re: rpm vs deb

On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 13:57:29 -0500, Tino Ionescu wrote: > I am confused over one topic. If you install a rpm package will it be > known to the system? Not if you install it using "rpm". If you use "alien" it will be registered with the packaging system. HTH, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening

Re: rpm -qf /path/somefile equivalent in debian

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:16:59PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: > Hi! > > Is there an rpm -qf /some/path/file equivalent in debian? I need to find out > which package contains libGLU.so.* couse I need to recompile it to use it with > nvidia... > If anyone knows I'd really appreciate the answer.. >

Re: rpm -qf /path/somefile equivalent in debian

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:16:59PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: > Hi! > > Is there an rpm -qf /some/path/file equivalent in debian? I need to find out > which package contains libGLU.so.* couse I need to recompile it to use it with > nvidia... > If anyone knows I'd really appreciate the answer..

Re: rpm -qf /path/somefile equivalent in debian

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:16:59PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: > Hi! > > Is there an rpm -qf /some/path/file equivalent in debian? I need to find out > which package contains libGLU.so.* couse I need to recompile it to use it with > nvidia... > If anyone knows I'd really appreciate the answer..

Re: rpm -qf /path/somefile equivalent in debian

Hello * Bostjan Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > Is there an rpm -qf /some/path/file equivalent in debian? I need to find out > which package contains libGLU.so.* couse I need to recompile it to use it with > nvidia... dpkg -S /some/path/file > If anyone knows I'd really appr

Re: rpm -qf /path/somefile equivalent in debian

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is there an rpm -qf /some/path/file equivalent in debian? I need to > find out which package contains libGLU.so.* couse I need to > recompile it to use it with nvidia... If anyone knows I'd really > appreciate the answer.. > > THX in advance! "dpkg -S" is the answer.

Re: RPM Packages

Pavel writes: > You could alse use rpm under Debian directly,... A very bad idea. RPM is only there so that alien can use it. Are you absolutely certain that the software you want to install is not available in a .deb? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: RPM Packages

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote: > try alien to convert rpm to deb packages!!! You could alse use rpm under Debian directly, though alien seems to be better. > On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Shel Johnson wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a program that let's us run rpm packages?

Re: RPM Packages

try alien to convert rpm to deb packages!!! On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Shel Johnson wrote: > Does anyone know of a program that let's us run rpm packages??.. > > = > Shel > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ- 23454126 > AIM- CacheMonet > > __ > Do You Yahoo!?

Re: [*] rpm to deb

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bart Szyszka) wrote: >> i saw a litter form this list, it said there are some tools can >> conver the rpm pakage to deb pakage. but can it work well? > >I'm very impressed with the 'alien' package (apt-get install alien). A >couple people who suggested that I try it told me that

Re: [*] rpm to deb

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello everybody: > > i saw a litter form this list, it said there are some tools can conver the > rpm pakage to deb pakage. but > can it work well? and where can i find it? i have some redhat,turbo cds, so i > really have a lot of rpm pakage. > I want to use them, if

Re: [*] rpm to deb

> i saw a litter form this list, it said there are some tools can conver the > rpm > pakage to deb pakage. but can it work well? I'm very impressed with the 'alien' package (apt-get install alien). A couple people who suggested that I try it told me that it isn't entirely reliable, but so far I'v

Re: RPM vs. Debian package format

dkphoto wrote: > > >You can find out how robust (and picky) debs are by packaging > >something. A couple weeks and a couple hundred pages of > >developer docs later, you'll appreciate what goes into a deb. > >The alien command will convert between rpms and debs and > >you can compare the results.

Re: RPM vs. Debian package format

>You can find out how robust (and picky) debs are by packaging >something. A couple weeks and a couple hundred pages of >developer docs later, you'll appreciate what goes into a deb. >The alien command will convert between rpms and debs and >you can compare the results. Would someone mind explain

Re: RPM

yes, packages called rpm and alien. _oO" Kecsi "0o_

Re: rpm package broken ? Hotfix

On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 12:39:04AM -0400, Darxus wrote: > > I just did > > apt-get update > apt-get install rpm > rpm -i Device3Dfx-2.2-3.src.rpm > > And got "rpm: error in loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.0.1: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory" > > Did a "locate

Re: rpm -i no /bin/sh

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Paul wrote: > I have alien installed and would of course hope to convert the RPM's I > require once I am sure I can use Debian for my needs. > > I thought initially while I am trying to get things set up I would > just try installing as RPM's. Debian appears to offer an RPM i

Re: rpm -i no /bin/sh

On 17-Jun-99 scratch wrote: >You *are* aware of the fact that debian uses .deb files, and not rpm's, >right? Yes. >Ofcourse, you *can* use rpm's, but if there's a .deb available, by >all means, use it :) Check out www.debian.org/Packages. There isn't. > Now, if you *have* to use rpm's, take a

Re: rpm -i no /bin/sh

Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am in the early stages of setting up a Debian system. So far, so > good. I have now tried to install a few RPM's and failed due to > dependancy problems with /bin /sh. It means that the RPM package has a depency on a RPM package providing /bin/sh You shouldn'

Re: rpm -i no /bin/sh

On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Paul wrote: > I am in the early stages of setting up a Debian system. So far, so good. I > have > now tried to install a few RPM's and failed due to dependancy problems with > /bin > /sh. I thought this means that /bin/sh doesn't exist. I have checked and it > does > as a

Re: RPM packages

Eber de Castro Diniz wrote: > Hi guys... > > Hope you could help me... I've downloaded some RPM files and I'd like to > install it... > I've heard that's pretty possible to convert .rpm files to .deb... but > how? The program's name is Alien, and it's worked very well for the few times that I'

Re: RPM packages

--- Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > Alien can be used to install binary packages, but > it does so outside of > > the dpkg database. > > That's completly wrong. Alien converts things into > debian packages which may > be installed and manipulated just like any ot

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