[Novalug] alien rpm to deb conversion

Bonnie Dalzell bdalzell@qis.net
Wed Sep 19 16:11:20 EDT 2007


triing to use alien for rpm to deb conversion of the gimp-ilbm rpm I am 
getting an error:


  sudo alien -d gimp-ilbm-0.9.4-1.i386-2.rpm

sh: rpm: command not found
Error executing "LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat %{SUMMARY} 
gimp-ilbm-0.9.4-1.i386-2.rpm":  at 
/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/Alien/Package.pm line 482.

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clarification would be appreciated.

why is it looking for rpm as a command?
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