On 2025-06-05 15:47:31 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Anno domini 2025 Thu, 5 Jun 14:05:54 -0500
J Leslie Turriff via tde-users scripsit:
On 2025-06-05 13:54:13 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
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
Uhuh... but
@14:04:09 root@pinto wd=/usr/local/Downloads/Packages/debs ● fakeroot alien --to-rpm imager_1.8.5_amd64.deb Control file couldn't be read! at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.1/Alien/Package/Deb.pm line 234. rc=2
and notice that this is being run as root.
If it's just for the contents of the deb: you could just unpack it and cipy its content to wherever you need it:
dpkg-deb -xv imager_1.8.5_amd64.deb /some/target/directory
Nik
Leslie
Ah, well; I found an older .rpm version of the package I was trying to convert, so I won't need Alien after all.
Thank you all for the suggestions, though.
Leslie