Hi All,
Anyone have a comment on the effectiveness of using "alien" to convert .deb packages into .prm?
https://www.maketecheasier.com/convert-deb-files-rpm/
A better way?
Many thanks, -T
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.
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 9:49 AM ToddAndMargo via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
Hi All,
Anyone have a comment on the effectiveness of using "alien" to convert .deb packages into .prm?
https://www.maketecheasier.com/convert-deb-files-rpm/
A better way?
Many thanks, -T _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
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!
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
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