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  From: branko@senet.com.au
  To  : lai kokcheong <dot_lai@hotmail.com>
  Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 20:59:10 +0930 (CST)

Re: installing rpm file to DEbian system

According to the man page for alien, the syntax:

 alien [--to-deb] [--patch=file] [options] file [...]
 
should do what you are asking. However, it won't create the
post-install script. Does anyone know what the kde-installer is
attempting to do?  Maybe its a shell script in which case you could
examine it and finish the install manually.

>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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Branko Bratkovic
branko@senet.com.au

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