Alien Failure: Doesn't Create .deb

[LaneLester]

As root I tried to use alien to create a .deb from an .rpm with this command:
alien -d vym*.rpm
It generated a flock of errors like this:
chown: changing ownership of [file or folder]: Operation not permitted

And then ended with these messages:
Package build failed. Here's the log:
dh_testdir
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k -d
dh_installdirs
dh_installdocs
install: cannot change owner and/or group of `debian/vym/usr': Operation not permitted
dh_installdocs: command returned error code 256
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
find: vym-1.8.1: No such file or directory

The last line is interesting, because a vym-1.8.1 folder was created and seems to have all the package's files in it. It looks like there was only the failure to create the .deb from the files.

Lane

[claydoh]

Re: Alien Failure: Doesn't Create .deb

did you try it with sudo?
sudo alien -d vym-1.8.1-suse-10.0-i586.rpm

It worked for me, using the suse rpm I got from their sourceforge download

[LaneLester]

Re: Alien Failure: Doesn't Create .deb

did you try it with sudo?
sudo alien -d vym-1.8.1-suse-10.0-i586.rpm

It worked for me, using the suse rpm I got from their sourceforge download

I didn't need sudo, because I run as root. Otherwise, I tried again with the above command, using the same .rpm you did. And I still didn't get the .deb. Strange!

Anyway, I copied the files from the unpacked .rpm, and now vym runs just fine.

Lane