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Install .rpm Files in Debian and Ubuntu (Debian Admin)
Debian Admin looks
at installing rpm files with alien. "Some time you might find
some applications are having only .rpm files but you want a .deb package
for your debian,Ubuntu and other debian derived ditributions.If you can't
find .deb debian package in any of the debian,ubuntu repositories or
elsewhere, you can use the alien package converter to install the .rpm
file."
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Install .rpm Files in Debian and Ubuntu (Debian Admin) Posted Oct 13, 2006 20:47 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] Please don't. Even different RPMical distributions have different guidelines as to package naming and contents. Sure, in Debian-land this isn't an issue as everybody uses the same base packages and guidelines, but it will bite you if you try to install alien stuff. When I need a package that isn't in Fedora (or CentOS for that matter) I look for a package for a similar distribution (even different versions of the same distribution can be different enough to get things to break!), grab the source package (SRPM) and build from there myself.
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