missing dependencies

[John Mark Walker]

Excerpts from Donald Raikes's message of Thu Jan 03 11:00:23 -0800 2008:
> Hi,
> I have been trying to install an rpm package onto gutsy for several days
> now.


Hold everything - you're probably better off using alien to convert to
.deb and then installing. I *think* the problem is that your RPM db is
empty, hence why it can't find any of the files.

so, run 'sudo apt-get install alien' 

Then, in the same directory as your RPM, run 'alien -c filename.rpm' and
the rest should work. I've had reasonably good success with alien,
although there is the odd package that won't work. In those cases, I
simply untar the package and install manually:

	tar xvfz filename.rpm

At least, that's how RPM's used to work. I haven't used an RPM-based
distro in a couple of years :)

-JM