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Installing an ".RPM" package?
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:18 am
by ambertone
Hi all, I have a downloaded program I need to install. How do I install an RPM? package file on a Debian dased distro, not Redhat?
Cheers
Rod
Installing an ".RPM package?"
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:37 am
by richard
Load kpackage onto your computer with synaptic or install it from the control center (one of the many software packages you can install). Run kpackage and direct it to your rpm file. You'll have to be in 'root' mode and or type in your 'root' password. If the the package installs properly you will get a '0' as a final output
on the screen. If you get a '1' you have problems with dependency files that the rpm file needs in order to set up and install properly.
Rich
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 6:48 am
by ambertone
OK, dumb question, how do I code "alien <filename>.rpm" from the directory the RPM is in and not from a terminal screen?
Rod
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 6:54 am
by ambertone
Hi there, tried kpackage and got a heap of missing dependencies. What you do in this case?
Cheers
Rod
Re: Installing an ".RPM" package?
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:30 am
by scorp123
ambertone wrote:Hi all, I have a downloaded program I need to install. How do I install an RPM? package file on a Debian dased distro, not Redhat?
What program is that?? For most programs there should be *.deb packages, IMHO. Can you please tell us more?
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:09 am
by ambertone
Hi there, trying to install Limewire Pro. I have the paid version.
Rod
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:09 am
by scorp123
ambertone wrote:Hi there, trying to install Limewire Pro. I have the paid version.
I almost suspected that. Why oh why don't you take the tar.gz or the *.deb version if one is available?? It's way easier! Besides: The free
FrostWire has all the features of LimeWire Pro, except that it is free and costs zipp
It's safe to say you paid money for nothing.
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:20 pm
by ambertone
I bought it a long time ago when using Windows and just always kept a copy for Linux just in case. I do know about Frostwire and will have ago with it.
Cheers
Rod
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:31 pm
by ambertone
Installed Frostwire with no problems but nothing happens when I click the icon, doesn't run. Back to square one.
Rod
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:10 am
by ambertone
Thanks for that, I'll do some reading. It's not that it opens and does not connect it simply does not open at all. Clicking the icon does nothing and I notice the icon is not the Frostwire icon but some default thing.
Rod
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:04 am
by scorp123
ambertone wrote:Thanks for that, I'll do some reading. It's not that it opens and does not connect it simply does not open at all. Clicking the icon does nothing and I notice the icon is not the Frostwire icon but some default thing.
And just in case you use Beryl too ...
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