Re: rpm packages Debian

2004-08-12 Thread Kevin Mark
-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

2004-08-12 Thread Peter O
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

2004-08-12 Thread Paul Johnson
[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

2004-08-12 Thread Brian Pack
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 packages - alien

2003-10-04 Thread Uwe Dippel
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

2003-10-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
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

2003-10-02 Thread Martin Jungowski
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

2003-10-02 Thread Rui Nóbrega
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

2003-10-02 Thread Nick Hastings
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 Packages

2000-07-25 Thread John Hasler
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

2000-07-25 Thread Pavel M. Penev
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

2000-07-24 Thread Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar
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 packages

1999-06-11 Thread Sean
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

1999-05-18 Thread Kenneth Scharf
--- 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

Re: RPM packages

1999-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
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 other packages. > use alien to install ANY package that cont

Re: RPM packages

1999-05-17 Thread Kenneth Scharf
On Sun, 16 May 1999, 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? > > Is it really possible? If so, it will cause any damage t

Re: RPM packages

1999-05-17 Thread David B.Teague
On Sun, 16 May 1999, 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? > > Is it really possible? If so, it will cause any damag

Re: RPM packages

1999-05-17 Thread with a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain
yes you can do that, with a tool called alien and perhaps some other things as well.

Re: RPM packages

1999-05-17 Thread Jake Bishop
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? > > Is it really possible? If so, it will cause any damage to my system? > > Regards

Re: RPM packages

1999-05-17 Thread Alec Smith
Take a look at the 'alien' package to do this. Its listed in dselect. I just used the RedHat 6.0 SRPMs for Pine 4.10 on my Debian 2.1 systems without difficulty. Note these are source RPMs and not the binaries. On Sun, 16 May 1999, Eber de Castro Diniz wrote: > Hi guys... > > Hope you could he

Re: RPM packages.

1997-11-06 Thread
> > checking for X... (cached) libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers > > /usr/X11R6/include > > checking for dlfcn.h... (cached) no > > checking for main in -lX11... (cached) no etc. > > Anyone know what is wrong here? > > Just remove the cache (./config.cache). > Removed it. When I rerun configure

Re: RPM packages.

1997-11-06 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
David R. Kohel wrote: > > checking for X... (cached) libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers > /usr/X11R6/include > checking for dlfcn.h... (cached) no > checking for main in -lX11... (cached) no > checking for main in -lXext... (cached) no > checking for main in -lXpm... (cached) no > checking for main

Re: RPM packages.

1997-11-06 Thread David R. Kohel
> FWIW, I was able to compile SANE on my system running 'unstable' > with no problems. Works great with my HP ScanJet 4c. Thanks, I did the partial upgrade. Compiling seemed to work OK, except that the configure doesn't set up the Makfiles to compile xscanimage. I did also upgrade the xlibs.

Re: RPM packages.

1997-11-05 Thread Jim Pick
"David R. Kohel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to install "sane" (Scanner Access Now Easy) using > rpm packages for the gtk+ (Gimp Tool Kit) and sane binaries. > I see that in hamm I have the libgtk1 libraries and libgtk-dev. > Can I use these without a complete upgrade to libc6?