Howdy... Awhile back, I bought RedHat Motif when I thought that I'd be running their distribution. Well, I discovered that I liked Debian better and that alien, as shipped with Debian 1.2 would install the motif RPMs.
I've since upgraded my installation by hand to 1.3 (without using deselect) and now alien seems unable to install the RPMs. I get the same error when trying to install other RPMs or .tar.gz's. Any ideas on why what formerly worked is now breaking would be most appreciated. PeeWee overmind:~ ] dpkg --list | egrep "alien|dpkg|rpm|fileutils|shellutils|bash|perl" ii alien 3.3 Install RedHat and Slackware Packages with d ii bash 2.0-3 The GNU Bourne Again SHell ii dpkg 1.4.0.8 Package maintenance system for Debian Linux ii dpkg-cross 0.1 Tools for cross compiling Debian packages ii dpkg-dev 1.4.0.8 Package building tools for Debian Linux ii dpkg-ftp 1.4.9 Ftp method for dselect. ii fileutils 3.16-2 GNU file management utilities. ii perl 5.003.07-10 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report ii perl-debug 5.003.07-10 Allow debugging perl scripts (and perl). ii perl-suid 5.003.07-10 Runs setuid perl scripts. ii perl-tk b11.02-5 Perl module providing the Tk graphics librar ii rpm 2.3.8-1 Red Hat Package Manager ii shellutils 1.16-2b The GNU shell programming utilities. overmind:/tmp # alien -n rh-motif-2.0-2.i386.rpm -- Unpacking rh-motif-2.0-2.i386.rpm 3633 blocks -- Automatic package debianization -- Building the package rh-motif_2.0-3_i386.deb test -f debian/rules test root = "`whoami`" test -f debian/rules touch debian/build test -f debian/rules test -f debian/rules rm -rf debian/tmp install -d debian/tmp cp -a `ls | grep -v debian` debian/tmp debstd --------------- debstd processing -------------- -- Installing Documentation -- Looking for manpages in sourcepackage ** Main Package rh-motif -- Processing provided ELF libraries Sharable Library usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0 Added ELF Library link libXm.so.2 -- Checking for executable binaries in package usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0 ELF Binary Warning: Unusual executable location usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0 DEBIAN/postinst Script -- Figuring out dependencies of ELF objects dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0': ` ./debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0 => ./debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0 (0x4000a000)' dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0': ` libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x401d1000)' dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0': ` libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x4028c000)' dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0': ` libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40299000)' dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0': ` libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x402db000)' dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0': ` libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x402e6000)' dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0': ` libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40384000)' dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0': ` libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x4038d000)' dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0' gave nothing on standard output dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0': ` ./debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0 => ./debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0 (0x4000a000)' dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0': ` libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x401d1000)' dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0': ` libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x4028c000)' dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0': ` libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40299000)' dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0': ` libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x402db000)' dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0': ` libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x402e6000)' dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0': ` libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40384000)' dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0': ` libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x4038d000)' dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2.0' gave nothing on standard output dpkg: --search needs at least one file name pattern argument Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*]; Use dselect for user-friendly package management; Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values; Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options; Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files; Type dpkg --licence for copyright licence and lack of warranty (GNU GPL) [*]. Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through `less' or `more' ! dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: failure: dpkg --search gave error exit status 2 -- Checking Symlinks --------------- debstd processing finished -------------- dpkg-gencontrol dpkg-gencontrol: failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek make: *** [binary-arch] Error 29 Package build failed. -- "Learn to knit for all I care, but find something rhythmical to do before bed" -Amanda Robinson -- personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.scc.mi.org/peewee/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for pgp2.6.2 public key -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
