How about downloading the source for alien and building it yourself??? Available from here http://www.kitenet.net/programs/code/alien/alien_7.31.tar.gz I personally prefer installing for RPM's, but that'sbecause I'm lazy, although I did manage to sucessfully compile a new kernel and upgrade perl this weekend with out writing anything off in the process :-) Hope that helps Chris Chris *************************************************************************** E Mail Chris@glovercc.clara.co.uk WWW http://www.glovercc.clara.co.uk ICQ 18054759 Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject. -Anon On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 Jenny_Hopkins@toby-churchill.com wrote:

Hi list This is what i hate most. I want to install a driver that i can only find in rpm (I'm using debian) I installed alien I can't install the driver as it requires a later version of rpm I can only find a deb version of the later rpm in testing so download the deb package I need about a billion dependent packages, so download I try to dpkg -i them all I get stuck on installing libdb3 as it conflicts with libdb2 I can't remove libdb2 because loads of stuff depends on it. grrrrrrr, Perhaps there is a one-line two-word command someone can help me with that will cure my woes? I'm sure i'm doing this the hard way. Thanks, Jenny.

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