On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:54:02PM +0300, Itai Arad wrote: > How did you manage to convert the deb to rpm? > > I tried alien, but it get the following message: > > alien -f bidi-openoffice.org_1.0.0-4_i386.deb > Control file couldn't be read! at > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Alien/Package/Deb.pm line 161. > > I am using Mandrake 8.2, and I got this message both from the alien > package that comes with the system and from the latest version that I've > installed by myself (version 8.07). > > where did I go wrong?
What's the output of "md5sum bidi-openoffice.org_1.0.0-4_i386.deb"? I suspect a corrupt package. Regards, Yotam Rubin > > thanks, ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]