6 Jun
2009
6 Jun
'09
5:17 p.m.
Ray Rashif wrote:
With any kind of development tool, you have to know
how it works and to
what extent it can help you. If Alien, for instance, does not prove to
be sufficient, you have to fill in the gaps with other tools or even
"manual labour".
Personally, alien, rpmextract, deb2targz, have all been useful. There's
nothing on it that warrants recommendation because there's no other
similar utility (at least not that I know of) - you use it if you need it.
I've used Alien a couple of times to convert packages from the archaic
RPM format into the sleek and modern DEB format without any problems,
but I stick with Debian so have only chosen to do it 3 times in six
years of Linux use.
--
David
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