Re: rpm file

2006-04-22 Thread Joey Hess
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

2006-04-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
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 > >> ha

Re: rpm file

2006-04-22 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
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 pl

Re: rpm file

2006-04-22 Thread Joey Hess
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. Th

Re: rpm file

2006-04-22 Thread Joey Hess
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

Re: rpm file

2006-04-22 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
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

Re: rpm file

2006-04-22 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
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

Re: rpm file

2006-04-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
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 ma

rpm file

2006-04-22 Thread gianni
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?

Re: alian fails to unpack a .rpm file

2001-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Gerd Arlitt wrote: > I used alien successfully for a set of RPM packages which I am using > here. Now some will install and some will not with the following errors: > > e.g. > > alien -i XmlAda-runtime-0.5.1-1.i386.rpm > > error: query of XmlAda-runtime-0.5.1-1.i386.rpm failed > . > . > error: q

alian fails to unpack a .rpm file

2001-05-02 Thread Gerd Arlitt
Hello, I used alien successfully for a set of RPM packages which I am using here. Now some will install and some will not with the following errors: e.g. alien -i XmlAda-runtime-0.5.1-1.i386.rpm error: query of XmlAda-runtime-0.5.1-1.i386.rpm failed . . error: query of XmlAda-runtime-0.5.1-1.i3