Installing a RMP file in Linux

[Barry Young]

How do you do the compile?  I am pretty new to Ubuntu/Linux.
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From: <uli at wach-o-witz.de>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: Installing a RMP file in Linux


> On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 07:51:52 -0500, youngbar at insightbb.com wrote
>> What is the best way to install a RPM file in Ubuntu?
>
> a) Get the original sources and do a clean install by compiling it 
> yourself
> b) convert the 'rpm' to 'deb' via 'alien'.
>
> I prefer a) in combination with the use of 'checkinstall'.
>
> Uli
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