[Ilugc] using RPM packages in debian
- From: rajasuperman@xxxxxxxxx (Raja Subramanian)
- Date: Sun Apr 9 13:42:21 2006
Hi,
On 4/9/06, Balachandran Sivakumar <contactsbala@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there anyway in which RPM packages can be used with
the Debian.I use debian sarge 3.1r0
I would not recommend installing any unofficial packages on a debian box.
The package may not follow the debian FHS, and you may have problems
later on. Read:
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/.
I would recommend that you extract the rpm package (like a tgz archive)
and manually move the files into /usr/local/<package-name>.
You don't even need rpm to be installed to extract rpm files. rpm files are
infact gzipped cpio archives (preceeded by a small rpm header). You
should be able to find an "rpm2cpio" script on the web that will help you
unpack an rpm file.
- Raja
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