Re: [PLUG] checkinstall

Mike Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com> · Fri, 2 Aug 2002 23:21:55 -0400

On Aug 02, 2002 at 03:19:27PM, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> 
> <advocacy>
> 
> W/ debian, you can also do all the rpm commands, first do
> 
> apt-get install rpm

and apt-get install librpm4. Then do a mkdir /var/lib/rpm.

> as debian supports rpm. You can build a rpm is debian source isn't
> available then do

After doing the above, you should be able to use rpm natively, without using
alien to convert to a .deb.