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08-11-2008, 10:24 AM
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Registered: Jul 2008
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alien in fedora
I googled and found that 'alien' can conver a debian package to fedora rpm ....
1) Is it correct ? if so ,how can i install alien ? yum fails for me .
2) Is there anyother tool ?
Thanks,
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08-11-2008, 10:31 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2006
Location: Kolkata, India
Distribution: Debian 64-bit GNU/Linux, Kubuntu64, Fedora QA, Slackware,
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1. yes
1,2. Compile from source
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08-11-2008, 12:23 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Bologna
Distribution: CentOS 6.5 OpenSuSE 12.3
Posts: 10,509
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I have installed alien through different releases of Fedora and I have never experienced problems. The compilation is clean and straightforward. You can download the source code here. |
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