[CoLoCo] RPM on ubuntu

[David Overcash]

Yeah, I would try to install the "rpm" package for starters...

sudo aptitude install rpm

Then go from there with trying to use your client and see if it works...  if
not find out where the source for the package is at and just compile it
yourself (shouldn't be too difficult).

-David

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Kevin Fries <kfries at cctus.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 07:04 -0700, Kenneth D Weinert wrote:
> > This is not the normal "install an RPM file on ubuntu", but the need for
> > an rpm command on ubuntu.
>
> A quick check indicates that not only is RPM in the repos, so is yum:
>
> $ apt-cache search rpm | grep rpm
> kdeadmin-kfile-plugins - KDE file metainfo plugins for deb and rpm files
> librpm-dev - RPM shared library, development kit
> librpm4 - RPM shared library
> rpm - Red Hat package manager
> apt-rpm-repository - tools to create an APT RPM repository
> edos-rpmcheck - Checks whether dependencies of RPM packages can be
> satisfied
> libapt-rpm-pkg-dev - development files for APT for RPM library
> libapt-rpm-pkg-libc6.6-6-2 - APT for RPM library
> lsb-rpm - Red Hat package manager for LSB package building
> mach - make a chroot of a rpm-based distribution
> mock - Build rpm packages inside a chroot
> python-rpm - Python bindings for RPM
> rpm2html - Generate HTML index from directories of RPMs
> smartpm - An alternative package manager that works with dpkg/rpm
> smartpm-core - An alternative package manager that works with dpkg/rpm
> yum - Advanced front-end for rpm
> rpmstrap - bootstrap a basic RPM-based system
>
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