DB2 success! Joey Hess clued me in, the RPM scripts weren't being run, so I changed the /bin/rpm hack script to this:
#!/bin/sh alien --to-deb --scripts -i $2 With the noted symlinks: > /bin/awk -> /usr/bin/gawk > /bin/basename -> /usr/bin/basename > /bin/compress -> /usr/bin/compress > /bin/grep -> /usr/bin/grep > /bin/egrep -> /usr/bin/egrep > /bin/sed -> /usr/bin/sed > /bin/touch -> /usr/bin/touch Installation proceeded. I can now start the database, catalog a node, connect to the sample database ... it's looking pretty healthy. Next, getting the web control center to work :) Colin.