Re: [TCLUG:21169] Use of RPM within Debian

[Yaron <jethro@freakzilla.com>]

  Hi,

On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Perry Hoekstra wrote:

> Question for the Debianers:  Is there a utility that exists that allows
> me to install an *.RPM package into a Debian distro?  Twice today, I
> have run into packages I would like to install but all they offer are
> .rpm packages and the *.debs are non-existant or woefully out of date.

Well, fist of all, you can get and install RPM itself on any distro, and
pretty much lots of  Unix variants other than Linux.

Second, there's a program called Alien which will let you install
RPM/.deb/tgz/whatever. 

-Yaron

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