Maybe it's me who is doing something wrong Donald ;but the last time I tried to use Alien with ubuntu I was told I did not have permission even thou I am sudo. John Mark Walker <johnmark@johnmark.org> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> 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 -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </blockquote> <hr size=1>Looking for last minute shopping deals? <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51734/*http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping"> Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.</a>