installing programs

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: installing programs
started by: TSK

Posted by TSK on Jan. 01 2006,21:26

how would one install a .rpm file?

Posted by melder215 on Jan. 02 2006,04:54

oooh!! i whanna know 2.. !!! Mainly outta curiosity.. does the dsl book they sell on this site fill in and sndwer all these important questions? is it good for newbies.. heck i have been playing round w/ linux for years occasionally and still know nutthing.. least here someone might post an answer..

Posted by mikshaw on Jan. 02 2006,14:12

You can't install rpm files in dsl without installing the rpm application, and possibly additional support files.

Honestly, though, there's no reason to install rpm if you just want to add software. DSL is descended from Debian, which does not use RPM...it uses DEB. Just about anything you can get in RPM format can also be gotten in DEB format, and it's likely that there are deb packages that are not available as rpm.

You can install deb files in dsl after enabling apt, or downloading/installing dsl-dpkg.dsl from the myDSL repository....which reminds me....myDSL is an ever-expanding collection of packages that are specifically built for DSL.

Posted by melder215 on Jan. 03 2006,02:45

i only asked cause i found my lexmark driva in .rpm . But your nfo is allways helpful never the less.

could ya tell me if i can get a list of ALL current dsl proggies and descripts.. rather than having to use the ?internet? mydsl reposite. cause push wait.. read push wait.. i prefer to just read one big txt file.. yal gottit? or is it a good ide4.. i get somma them ..

Posted by Stefan on Jan. 03 2006,07:03

Hallo
There is a programm called rpmunpack somwhere on the web. You can use it to extract the rpm and install the components manually.

Posted by adraker on Jan. 03 2006,07:46

There is also the aliendebs.dsl package in the repository,
although I can't say I've used it with dsl 2.0...
As always, read the info file first.

Posted by Guest on Jan. 05 2006,05:01

I've been wondering this myself, how do you install rpm's. I've been searching for a java app that was DEB but found nothing, and the instructions they gave were pretty useless, for one I can't install it to a directory that doesn't exsist, so how do I make this directory? Just a lot of questions keep piling up. My question is how do I install a rpm on DSL now that it supports RPM's....

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 05 2006,18:51

Use ALIEN to convert your RPM file into a DEB file.

Then "Enable APT" from the menu.

Then open a terminal window and type:

sudo su
dpkg -i name_of_file.deb

Posted by ev1l on Feb. 02 2006,13:25

theres a program called alien that converts RPM's to DEB's

then you can do
dpkg -i blah.deb

to install it