[plug] Installing RPM packages on a Debian system

[Onno Benschop]

On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 14:50, J L Macfarlan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm a newbe to linux. I have a Debian woody system and would like to install
> a ups power management driver which is in an RPM package.
> Is there a simple way to do this. I have the RPM package manager installed
> but it is looking for a database of some discription.

If you already have the .rmp, then install alien - apt-get install
alien, then run alien {name of .rpm} which will generate a .deb, which
you can then install with dpkg -i {name of .deb}

So:
      * apt-get install alien
      * alien {name of .rpm}
      * dpkg -i {name of .deb}

Onno Benschop 

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