hum, seems to have a pb with this version of Alien 7.25-1 So is there a fix ? How can I do if I want to convert an tar.gz in an easy way ? [root@bastard root]# urpmi alien --18:19:00-- ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/alien-7.25-1mdk.i586.rpm ................ installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/alien-7.25-1mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ################################################################################################### [100%] ################################################################################################### [100%] [root@bastard downloads]# alien --to-rpm xmps-0.2.0.tar.gz package build failed at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm line 355, <FILELIST> line 366. [root@bastard downloads]# rpm -qa | grep rpm rpmlint-0.33-1mdk urpmi-1.6-12mdk rpm-build-4.0.3-0.15mdk rpmdrake-1.3-71mdk rpm-devel-4.0.3-0.15mdk gurpmi-1.0-12mdk rpmtools-3.0-8mdk grpmi-8.1-4mdk rpm-python-4.0.3-0.15mdk gnorpm-0.96-1mdk rpm-4.0.3-0.15mdk [root@bastard downloads]# rpm -qa | grep perl perl-GTK-Gnome-0.7007-1mdk perl-devel-5.601-4mdk perl-PDL-2.200-1mdk perl-GTK-GLArea-0.7007-1mdk perl-GTK-GdkPixbuf-0.7007-1mdk perl-DBI-1.14-5mdk perl-File-Tail-0.97-2mdk perl-MP3-Info-0.91-1mdk perl-libwww-perl-5.50-1mdk perl-CGI-2.752-2mdk perl-MIME-tools-5.410-1mdk perl-gettext-1.0-8mdk perl-5.601-4mdk perl-Time-HiRes-01.20-1mdk perl-base-5.601-4mdk perl-Term-Readline-Gnu-1.09-3mdk perl-DB_File-1.73-3mdk perl-HTML-SimpleParse-0.10-3mdk perl-Curses-1.05-2mdk perl-MailTools-1.15-1mdk perl-Net_SSLeay-1.05-4mdk perl-TimeDate-1.10-2mdk perl-Parse-RecDescent-1.80-1mdk perl-Date-Calc-4.3-1mdk perl-HTML-Parser-3.18-1mdk eperl-2.2.14-9mdk perl-Data-ShowTable-3.3-3mdk perl-GTK-0.7007-1mdk perl-GTK-Glade-0.7007-1mdk perl-GTK-GtkHTML-0.7007-1mdk perl-libnet-1.0703-4mdk perl-Digest-MD5-2.12-1mdk perl-Msgcat-1.03-6mdk gimp-perl-1.2.1-6mdk perl-Tk-800.022-5mdk perl-MIME-Base64-2.12-1mdk perl-IO-stringy-1.219-2mdk perlftlib-1.2-11mdk perl-URI-1.10-1mdk perl-GTK-GdkImlib-0.7007-1mdk -- Copyleft Faber's prod. 2001 Powered by Linux Mandrake 8.0