12 Apr
2019
12 Apr
'19
4:20 a.m.
On Thu, 2019-04-11 at 15:11 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
On 4/11/19 3:05 PM, Seth Kenlon wrote:
I've used alien a few times and have been quite pleased with it. Mostly I've used it for relatively small utils.
I would imagine that its efficacy varies when dependency package names are very different between the Debian world and the Fedora world, but I'm only guessing.
Thank you!
I use alien to install OpenTx/Companion on Fedora
alien -r companion22_2.2.3_amd64.deb companion22-2.2.3-2.x86_64.rpm generated
However to avoid problems with "filesystem" rpm conflicts it is necessary to
export EDITOR="/usr/bin/geany -i";rpmrebuild -pe ./companion22-2.2.3-2.x86_64.rpm
and remove the problem entries (there may be a better way)
John