Alien help for newbie.

Bob Nielsen nielsen at oz.net
Thu Jan 27 11:30:49 UTC 2005


On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:45:54AM +0100, Brian Durant wrote:
> I would like to install stardict-2.4.4-1.i386.rpm and
> some noarch.rpm dictionary files into my Warty 4.10,
> but I haven't been able to find any documentation that
> I would understand as a newbie. I get the sudo alien
> -i stardict*, but how do I check if an install of
> stardict-2.4.4-1.i386.rpm will even work before I do a
> real install that would also include the noarch.rpm
> files. Am I just nervous and making this out to be a
> bigger problem than it is? I just don't want to break
> anything in the system.

It would probably be better to run alien without the -i option and
convert each of them to a .deb package, then run dpkg -i to install
them. You could run 'dpkg --no-run -i <filename.deb>' to simulate
the installation.  






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