On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 01:34:05AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > Charlie Zender wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >What is the recommended way to install the Intel Fortran and C/C++ > >compilers on Debian? They come as a set of RPMs. The RPMs do not > >install on my Debian system, because there are no RPMs installed > >on my Debian system so it can't find any pre-requisites: > > > >error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) > > > >I suppose I could try to find where the RPMs want to install their > >contents, and then try to install them myself manually. > >This sounds dangerous and error-prone, however. > >I gather this is a FAQ, "what to do when you have an RPM you want > >to install on a Debian system?", but I could not find the answer. > > Google on "Installing RPMs on Debian HOWTO" yields a lot of hits. The > key is the package "alien". > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show alien > Package: alien > Priority: optional > Section: admin > Installed-Size: 212 > Maintainer: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Architecture: all > Version: 8.24 > Depends: debhelper (>= 3), perl (>= 5.6.0-16), rpm (>= 2.4.4-2), > dpkg-dev, make, cpio > Suggests: patch, bzip2, lsb-rpm, lintian > Filename: pool/main/a/alien/alien_8.24_all.deb > Size: 113412 > MD5sum: ac232fe4e3ef90229f48c5522e005297 > Description: install non-native packages with dpkg > Alien allows you to convert LSB, Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware > Packages > into Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg. > . > It can also generate packages of any of the other formats. > . > This is a tool only suitable for binary packages. > > HTH
FWIW, sometimes it is better IMO to turm RPMs into TGZ format; then you can put the stuff in /opt or /usr/local. I never ever install anything into directories reserved for the packaging system unless it came from a deb created by a debian maintainer, a deb created by someone I trust, or a deb created by me. I do not trust debs created from rpm packages. My 2 cents .. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] We're sysadmins. Sanity happens to other people. -- Chris King -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
