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I'm used to installing apps to my hdinstalled PCs using apt-get. What do you do when what you need to install only comes as an rpm? I'm trying to install Object Based Phoenix BASIC (a vb clone for linux) from http://www.janus-software.com but phoenix is distributed only as rpms.
TIA,
AJG
You can use alien to convert the rpm into a deb.
OK, I tried alien, but I must be doing something wrong. In a shell I ran alien blah.phoenix.blah.rpm and just sat there forever without anything happening....
TIA,
AJG
It should work, but what's with the blah?
From memory (and after half a bottle of lambrusco):
alien name_of_package.rpm
Sorry, that's what I menat by blahlah... = whateverthenameof the appis....
Is alien slow if the rpm is a few MBs? I think there are 2 rpms for this package to work. One is almost 2MB and the other almost 4MB.
Thanx,
AJG
If memory serves me it's:
alien -i bläh.rpm (to install directly)
alien -d bläh.rpm (to just convert to .deb)
Actually, youre thinking of the dpkg command, markus. For RPMs use "alien --install blah.rpm".
Well, it's a bit faster to write -i than --install and I do believe they do the same thing. This time I even checked man alien.
I think i used -i instead of --install out of habit and it didnt work, but my memory is fuzzy since it was a day ago >.>
That's nothing, my memory is fuzzy all the time :D