cannot use software alien

jyunker · 12-04-2013, 11:24 AM

I am trying to use the linux program alien to change a *.deb file to an *.rpm file. It is not working. By that I mean when I type alien it is telling me it cannot locate the Deb.pm file.

Well I added the locatation of the Deb.pm file to my path and it still gives the same error.

How do I correct this?

Code:

alien
Can't locate Alien/Package/Deb.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at /usr/local/bin/alien line 296.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/alien line 296.
[james@james Desktop]$ 
[james@james Desktop]$ 
[james@james Desktop]$ 
[james@james Desktop]$ 
[james@james Desktop]$ 
[james@james Desktop]$ echo $PATH
/home/james/Downloads/Alien/Package:/usr/lib64/openmpi/bin/:/home/james/Desktop/perfexpert-2.1.2:/home/james/Desktop/hpcviewer:/home/james/Desktop/hpctoolkit-install/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_21/bin:/home/james/Desktop/scalasca-1.4.3/bin:/home/james/Desktop/papi-4.1.1/bin:/home/james/Desktop/tau-2.22.2/x86_64/bin:/home/james/Desktop/pdtoolkit-3.18/x86_64/bin:/home/james/Desktop:/opt/pgi/linux86-64/13.6/bin:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/james/bin:/home/james/Desktop/apache-ant-1.9.1/bin

and the Deb.pm file is ocated:

Code:

james@james Desktop]$ sudo find / -name Deb.pm
/usr/local/share/perl5/Alien/Package/Deb.pm
/home/james/Downloads/alien/blib/lib/Alien/Package/Deb.pm
/home/james/Downloads/alien/Alien/Package/Deb.pm

Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Respectfully,

newport_j

Spect73 · 12-04-2013, 11:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jyunker

I am trying to use the linux program alien to change a *.deb file to an *.rpm file. It is not working. By that I mean when I type alien it is telling me it cannot locate the Deb.pm file.

Well I added the locatation of the Deb.pm file to my path and it still gives the same error.

How do I correct this?

Code:

alien
Can't locate Alien/Package/Deb.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at /usr/local/bin/alien line 296.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/alien line 296.
[james@james Desktop]$ 
[james@james Desktop]$ 
[james@james Desktop]$ 
[james@james Desktop]$ 
[james@james Desktop]$ 
[james@james Desktop]$ echo $PATH
/home/james/Downloads/Alien/Package:/usr/lib64/openmpi/bin/:/home/james/Desktop/perfexpert-2.1.2:/home/james/Desktop/hpcviewer:/home/james/Desktop/hpctoolkit-install/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_21/bin:/home/james/Desktop/scalasca-1.4.3/bin:/home/james/Desktop/papi-4.1.1/bin:/home/james/Desktop/tau-2.22.2/x86_64/bin:/home/james/Desktop/pdtoolkit-3.18/x86_64/bin:/home/james/Desktop:/opt/pgi/linux86-64/13.6/bin:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/james/bin:/home/james/Desktop/apache-ant-1.9.1/bin

and the Deb.pm file is ocated:

Code:

james@james Desktop]$ sudo find / -name Deb.pm
/usr/local/share/perl5/Alien/Package/Deb.pm
/home/james/Downloads/alien/blib/lib/Alien/Package/Deb.pm
/home/james/Downloads/alien/Alien/Package/Deb.pm

Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Respectfully,

newport_j

Well, I probably am completely off target here, but if I encountered this myself I would think the following:

1. "Alien" doesn't follow the $PATH, but uses only those listed in the @INC variable.
2. I need to edit the file that contains the @INC variable to reflect where I actually have the Deb.pm located.
3. Or, I need to move the Deb.pm file to one of the locations that @INC is using.

Coordially,

jyunker · 12-04-2013, 01:17 PM

Okay that sounds reasonable. But how do I edit the file.

Code:

package Alien;
our $Version="8.78";

use strict;
use Getopt::Long;
use Alien::Package::Deb;
use Alien::Package::Rpm;
use Alien::Package::Tgz;
use Alien::Package::Slp;
use Alien::Package::Pkg;
use Alien::Package::Lsb;

The line 296 is use Alien::Package:

eb;

I could move the Deb.pm file, but that does not seem correct. There may be other files that need moving also.

Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Respectfully,

jyunker

Spect73 · 12-04-2013, 05:42 PM

I'm not sure what file your code example comes from. Let me snag a copy of the program and see what I can come up with. This may take a day or two.

Coordially,

Spect73 · 12-04-2013, 10:37 PM

Well, I obtained the package. Seems it needed several others to run. I'm not even sure I got all that I needed, but I did get enough to know that I'm not going to install it on my system. It would be a bear to clean up.

You didn't say what distro you were using. If I'm reading the material I found correctly, this 'alien' should be setup on a Debian system already. Perhaps checking with the Debian folks would help.

Sorry that I couldn't be of more help.

Coordially,

jdkaye · 12-04-2013, 11:46 PM

Can you tell us what distro you are running. I use alien on Debian and I installed the alien package by the normal route:

Code:

 sudo aptitude install alien

Here's the information about the alien package:

Quote:

~$ aptitude show alien
Package: alien
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 8.89
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Uncompressed Size: 214 k
Depends: debhelper (>= 7), perl, rpm (>= 2.4.4-2), dpkg-dev, make, cpio, rpm2cpio
Suggests: patch, bzip2, lsb-rpm, lintian, lzma
Description: convert and install rpm and other packages
Alien allows you to convert LSB, Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages into Debian packages, which can
be installed with dpkg.

It can also generate packages of any of the other formats.

This is a tool only suitable for binary packages.
Homepage: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/

jdk