Comments on: Install .rpm Files in Ubuntu

By: James

James — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:49:53 +0000

I’ve not seen any mention of anyone running into this problem: After running “fakeroot alien -d blahblah.rpm”, I get a “blahblah.deb generated” (success) message, but there is no resulting .deb file present afterward. The source rpm is in the cwd, and I am not specifying any path info anywhere else. Is this a common usage issue that anyone is aware of?

By: Krishna reddy

Krishna reddy — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:57:57 +0000

administrator@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -i RealPlayer11GOLD.deb
Selecting previously deselected package realplay.
(Reading database … 137597 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking realplay (from RealPlayer11GOLD.deb) …
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of realplay:
realplay depends on libasound2 (>> 1.0.22); however:
Version of libasound2 on system is 1.0.20-3ubuntu6.
realplay depends on libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.29.3); however:
Version of libatk1.0-0 on system is 1.28.0-0ubuntu1.
realplay depends on libfontconfig1 (>= 2.8.0); however:
Version of libfontconfig1 on system is 2.6.0-1ubuntu12.
dpkg: error processing realplay (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
realplay
administrator@ubuntu:~$

this problem will getting
plz send replay to krishnareddy.gali@gmail.com

By: SNEHAL

SNEHAL — Thu, 06 May 2010 09:17:42 +0000

thanks a lot… it really helped me a lot…

By: Dwite Check

Dwite Check — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:35:29 +0000

I used the gDebi Package Installer after using the sudo alien -d package-name.rpm command to install

By: vibin

vibin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:39:45 +0000

Plz change ur /etc/apt/sources.list …
If ur in LAN or doing in home it need to change accordingly
This file contains the proxy server which u r downloading packages
Make sure to correct this file in root mode

If u have any further doubt

Goto Synaptic Manger>Settings: Repository ..>Third Party S/w tab>Add >Type the according to the example given there (ur appropriate proxy ip)

By: Eduardo Rojas

Eduardo Rojas — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:20:48 +0000

When I type and enter sudo apt-get install alien:

this is what I get:

E: Type ‘“deb’ is not known on line 34 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.

Please tell what to do

Thanks in advance