[tde-users] Re: Using Alien to convert .deb to .rpm

Anno domini 2025 Thu, 5 Jun 12:39:38 -0500 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users scripsit:

Does anyone here know how to work Alien? So far I have had no success converting a .deb package to .rpm so I can install it on my machine. Attached is a terminal session that shows what's happening.

I tried sending a support request to the maintainer, but my email bounced with "joeyh@debian.org: SMTP error from remote server for RCPT TO command, host: muffat.debian.org (209.87.16.33) reason: 550 Unrouteable address".

Leslie

IIRC it was something like: $ fakeroot alien --to-rpm the-deb-thingie.deb

.. but it's been ages since I last used it ... at that time I moved from SuSE to debian, somewhen last century :)

Nik