your making this much harder than it needs to be.
They have an Ubuntu install option that does not entail useing an RPM
http://www.jupiterapplet.org/downloads.html there is ubuntu.
wich takes you to
https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/jupiter
repo add insturctions from the same page:
https://launchpad.net/+help-soyuz/ppa-sources-list.html
they then have instructions on how to add the repo which you cna then
use apt-get or my favorite aptitude to install.
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Michael Havens <
bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
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