On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:54:24 -0700 John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> dijo:
>I remember when I first installed Ubuntu in 2005. At that time the >repos had packages for just about everything, but in case you needed >something that was available only in RPM, Ubuntu came with 'alien,' >which could convert an RPM to a DEB. I used alien half a dozen times, >and it always worked perfectly. I did it! I found an RPM for vobsub2srt, downloaded it, alien-ed it to a DEB, and used Gdebi GUI to install it. It now appears in Synaptic as installed! The bad news is that it still can't find all the pieces of tesseract that it wants, and I don't know what happened to the snap version - did it get overwritten by the Debian package, or are both installed, or what? Re alien, I should have mentioned this before. Once at the Clinic there was a fellow with a Fedora computer who needed to install a program that was available only as a DEB. Fedora didn't have anything like alien, so I did an experiment. I downloaded the DEB file and did 'sudo alien pkg_name.deb pkg_name.rpm. We both sat and watched my screen as alien whirred, and then there appeared the RPM file. The fellow installed it on his Fedora machine and it ran perfectly. We both sat there giggling at our success. I never would have guessed that alien would work in either direction.
