Showing posts with label rpm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rpm. Show all posts

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Convert RPM package to deb package format on Ubuntu

How to convert RPM package to deb package format on Ubuntu, and install it with dpkg?

Step 1: Install the required packages

sudo apt-get install alien dpkg-dev debhelper build-essential

Step 2: Convert the RPM file


Run
sudo alien thepackagename.rpm
or
fakeroot alien thepackagename.rpm
and a .deb file called thepackagename.deb will be generated.

Step 3: Use dpkg to install the package

sudo dpkg -i thepackagename.deb

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Adobe Reader 9 for Linux

Adobe Reader (Acroread) 9.3-1 for Linux. Note that version 9.0 was skipped.


Download links:

AdbeRdr9.3-1_i386linux_enu.deb (60.5Mb)

Last update: Wednesday, January 13, 2010