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  From: lai kokcheong <dot_lai@hotmail.com>
  To  : conrad@iweb.net.au
  Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 20:17:53 PDT

Re: installing rpm file to DEbian system

I agree with you but I still has to run the kde-installer which fail when 
the stuff tries to check the package.rpm .
How to check or recreate the package.rpm to debian database system ?
>There is a package in the debian distribution that can install rpm's which
>you should find on your CD-ROM's.  I've never used them myself (haven't
>needed to).  The command dpkg -i may be what you need after converting the
>rpm format to deb with alien.  Check out the man pages for alien and dpkg.
>You may be the third person on the list using Debian.  I haven't been using
>Debian for long but my system is working well so keep in touch, I may know
>something useful.
>Cheers
>Conrad.
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