rsync progress

[Porter Smith]

On 2013-10-01 11:59, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-10-01 at 16:30 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>> I have tried to Google for this but the term is too vague - I am
>> getting thousands of unrelated links. (Almost all of which say "use
>> `alien` as I said.)
> 
> Well what I did was this:
> 
>    sudo apt-get install rpm
>    man rpm
> 
> :-)
> 
> Alternatively use alien to convert the .rpm file to a .deb file, then
> install the .deb as you would any other Ubuntu/Debian package. When I
> google "install rpm package ubuntu", the very first link is this one,
> which seems OK (I haven't used alien myself though):
> 
> 
> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/install-an-rpm-package-on-ubuntu-linux/
> 
> Let us know how you go.
> 
> Regards, K.
> 
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I beleive that the program is called alien.

sudo apt-get -y install alien*


The astrerix  signifies to apt to go ahead and install all dependencies

Thanks,

Porter