alien?

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

Anyone have a comment on the effectiveness of using "alien"
to convert .deb packages into .prm?

https://www.maketecheasier.com/convert-deb-files-rpm/

A better way?

Many thanks,
-T

[Seth Kenlon]

I've used alien a few times and have been quite pleased with it.
Mostly I've used it for relatively small utils.

I would imagine that its efficacy varies when dependency package names
are very different between the Debian world and the Fedora world, but
I'm only guessing.

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 9:49 AM ToddAndMargo via users
<users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Anyone have a comment on the effectiveness of using "alien"
> to convert .deb packages into .prm?
>
> https://www.maketecheasier.com/convert-deb-files-rpm/
>
> A better way?
>
> Many thanks,
> -T
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[ToddAndMargo]

On 4/11/19 3:05 PM, Seth Kenlon wrote:
>  I've used alien a few times and have been quite pleased with it.
>  Mostly I've used it for relatively small utils.
>  
>  I would imagine that its efficacy varies when dependency package names
>  are very different between the Debian world and the Fedora world, but
>  I'm only guessing. 

Thank you!

[ja]

On Thu, 2019-04-11 at 15:11 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>  On 4/11/19 3:05 PM, Seth Kenlon wrote:
>  > I've used alien a few times and have been quite pleased with it.
>  > Mostly I've used it for relatively small utils.
>  > 
>  > I would imagine that its efficacy varies when dependency package names
>  > are very different between the Debian world and the Fedora world, but
>  > I'm only guessing.
>  
>  Thank you!
>   
I use alien to install OpenTx/Companion on Fedora

alien -r companion22_2.2.3_amd64.deb
companion22-2.2.3-2.x86_64.rpm generated

However to avoid problems with "filesystem" rpm conflicts
it is necessary to

export EDITOR="/usr/bin/geany -i";rpmrebuild -pe
./companion22-2.2.3-2.x86_64.rpm

and remove the problem entries
(there may be a better way)

John