You can, but it's a PITA. Better to find the relevant debian/storm/progeny/corel package and install it. Failing that, alien works, but I remember it crapping all over my filesystem when I used it (I realized that a tarball is infinitely cleaner and much less hassle). HTH
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi to all! > > On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 00:43:16 -0500, Valius wrote: > > >or use alien (I believe it should be in your RedHat distribution) and > >``alienize'' .debs to .rpms > > > > I would like to know if alien can be user to obtain a .deb from a .rpm. If > this is the case, what happens with the > directories were, after installation, files are installed? I mean RH may > use some directories and Debian anothers. How compares an "alienized" > (.rpm --> .deb) version of a program with an original .deb version? After > install both of them work equally fine? Both versions can be updated using > apt-get? > > Thanks in advance for the answers! > > Regards from Rio, > > > Marcelo > _____________________ > Marcelo Chiapparini > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- There is an old saying that if a million monkeys typed on a million keyboards for a million years, eventually all the works of Shakespeare would be produced. Now, thanks to Usenet, we know this is not true. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!
