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  • From: Ian Scott <mriscott AT yahoo.co.uk>
  • To: kenm AT efn.org
  • Cc: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] rpm conversion
  • Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 07:55:17 -0500 (EST)

> Is there some more reliable way of converting "rpm"
> files to "tgz" or some other usable form than the standard
> "rpm2targz" script from Slackware? It seems like this did
> well in the past, but now it often fails silently after the
> first few bytes.
> Ken Martwick
>
On other distros I've used alien - it converts between all common formats
- deb, rpm, tgz, and seems to work very well.

It's perl based though I believe - do you have perl installed?


Ian




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