install debian package files on YDL?

[Ray Auge]

There is a tool to convert .debs to .rpms . It's called alien. Check
this.

http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/RPM-for-Unix-HOWTO-8.html

It's talking about Solaris, but the procedure is exactly the same for
you. You'll have to get alien from www.rpmfind.net, as it's not part of
the YDL sources. I sugest you get a src.rpm the do a:

#] su -c "rpmbuild --rebuild alien.???.src.rpm"

Note: that at the end the rpm ends up in
/usr/src/rpm/RPMS/ppc/alien.?????.ppc.rpm

then install it and you can do the conversion that way.


On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 13:21, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to install (or maybe better: extract to the disk) a few  
> debian ".deb" package files. Does anyone know a way how I can do that with  
> YDL 3.0?
> 
> Specifically, I want the debian key ring package for testing purposes, and  
> Michael Dänzer's latest XFree86 radeon drivers. So if anyone knows where I  
> could find them as rpm or tar.gz, this woule be very helpful, too.
> 
> Tia,
> 
> 	Albrecht.