As far as I know, Alien doesn't know what to do with .srpm files. It only deals with binary packages in .rpm format.
-- Pedro On Fri, 2001-09-07 at 09:40, Sebastiaan wrote: > High, > > On 7 Sep 2001, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I need to test a piece of software under Debian/testing that it's being > > distributed in .srpm format only. Is there any way under debian to > > "unpack" this thing so that I can attempt to compile it? > > > You could try to use 'alien'. It should convert it to a Debian source > package. Alternatively, you can install the package 'rpm' and unpack the > rpm thing. > > Greetz, > Sebastiaan > > >
