Thanks for inspiring me. My system is Ubuntu based so first I had to google
for converting RPM to deb and I found Alien. So I run alien and it runs
successfuly (I think). But no lightning bolt anywhere to be seen! Any ideas
what I did wrong?
bmike1@Michaels-Presario ~/Programs/Jupiter $ sudo alien -i *
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID
069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID
069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID
069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID
069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID
069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID
069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID
069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID
069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID
069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID
069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID
069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID
069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID
069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID
069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID
069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID
069c119e: NOKEY
Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package jupiter: postinst
Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts.
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID
069c119e: NOKEY
dpkg --no-force-overwrite -i jupiter_0.0.51-4_all.deb
Selecting previously deselected package jupiter.
(Reading database ... 172494 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking jupiter (from jupiter_0.0.51-4_all.deb) ...
Setting up jupiter (0.0.51-4) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
bmike1@Michaels-Presario ~/Programs/Jupiter $ sudo updatedb
bmike1@Michaels-Presario ~/Programs/Jupiter $ locate jupiter*
/home/bmike1/Downloads/jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm
/home/bmike1/Programs/Jupiter/jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm
bmike1@Michaels-Presario ~/Programs/Jupiter $ jupiter
jupiter: command not found
bmike1@Michaels-Presario ~/Programs/Jupiter $
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Brian Weaver <
bjweaver@gmail.com> wrote:
> Try this.. :)
>
> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+install+a+linux+RPM
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> well, I extracted the rpm and go
>>
>> bmike1@Michaels-Presario ~/Programs/Jupiter $ ls -l
>> total 60
>> drwxrwxr-x 4 bmike1 bmike1 4096 2011-11-29 08:07 etc
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 bmike1 bmike1 47296 2011-11-28 20:21
>> jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm
>> drwxrwxr-x 5 bmike1 bmike1 4096 2011-11-29 08:07 usr
>> drwxrwxr-x 3 bmike1 bmike1 4096 2011-11-29 08:07 var
>> bmike1@Michaels-Presario ~/Programs/Jupiter $
>>
>> What else am I supposed to do to install it?
>> --
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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