> > According to the announcement for Debian 1.3 at the Debian web site, > dpkg can now be used to install RPM files (at least that's how I read it). > I upgraded to 1.3, but I don't see anything about this in the dpkg docs or > man page. I tried it on an rpm file ( dpkg -i something.rpm) but it didn't > work. > > Anybody know how to use dpkg to install rpm packages?
Install the alien package. Then: alien(1L) alien(1L) NAME alien - Convert or install an alien binary package SYNOPSIS alien [--to-deb] [--patch=file] [options] file alien --to-rpm [options] file -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) #what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .