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Re: [BL] rpm conversion

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

[BL] rpm conversion, Ken Martwick, 01/17/2004
- Re: [BL] rpm conversion, 3aoo-cvfd, 01/17/2004
- Re: [BL] rpm conversion, Ian Scott, 01/19/2004
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- RE: [BL] rpm conversion, Keith Pierce, 01/17/2004
  - RE: [BL] rpm conversion, Ken Martwick, 01/17/2004
- RE: [BL] rpm conversion, Keith Pierce, 01/17/2004