I'm using a special program that has only .rpm version available as installer. As I need to run it on Ubuntu, Is there a way to install it in Ubuntu?
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Which program is it? You can always try and convert it using alien
in command line.
With alien you can convert from/to rpm/deb/tgz/slp.
The process is pretty straightforward:
sudo alien myfile.rpm
I think it will also attempt to install it.
If you don't have Alien installed, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command below.
sudo apt-get install alien
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WOW, that works great! But i have another questions...(sorry i'm new to Ubuntu..) I got the .edb file but how to install? Could you let me know the command? thanks a lot! Oct 18, 2012 at 7:39
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if alien hasn't installed it already, try
sudo dpkg -i myfile.deb
Oct 18, 2012 at 10:34