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Hi geeks
I have Ubuntu7.10 installed on my machine. I am getting some errors installing some rpm packages. I found the error message "rpm command not found".does it mean that i need to istall rpm package manager? right? I have a lot of rpm packages to install. How will I do? Help me please.
and when i try "apt-get install rpm " , the following error occurs
Quote:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package rpm is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package rpm has no installation candidate
But why would you install rpm packages ?
All applications are available as " .deb " packages.
Besides that, it is not possible, all dependencies are missing.
If you really need a package, only existing as rpm, then please convert it :
sudo alien <package>.rpm
.. to have 'package.deb' created.
.. .....
oh I see. I am newbie to linux and there are many conplex things for me in linux. Thank you for pointing out the facts that i dont know and I am going to upgrade to latest versions of ubuntu.
Distribution: PCLinuxOS2023 Fedora38 + 50+ other Linux OS, for test only.
Posts: 17,511
Rep:
Post #5, @Ravish_naik.
Quote:
sudo apt-get install alien
The install command is $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install alien
... unless you have an unsupported OS.
* If unsupported : Change the URL's in /etc/apt/sources.list
.. to point to the Ubuntu? old releases http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ <?>
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