> > What are the intricacies of installing red hat software on a Debian system ? > rpm is installed on my machine but fails to install. A number of libraries > are requested but i find it hard to figure out to wich package these > libraries belong. For the moment i have no info on these dependencies at > hand so i'm happy with any feedback on this issue. >
in unstable there is a piece of software called auto-apt. One of its features is to search by file for packages. Other option is to grab the file Contents from a mirror and grep it. Or, if IBM has source available, just compile it on the Debian box.