[SOLVED] Trying to use alien for the first time - how to build the deb package after extract

[oshunluvr]

I'm trying to convert an RPM into a DEB file but I need to edit the debian control file first. So I ran alien with the -g switch "Generate build tree, but do not build package." and edited the file. When I went to build the deb file, the instructions I have state to run "sudo debian/rules binary". This appears to work, but no output file isgenerated. Something must be missing from my instructions...

[oshunluvr]

Never mind - it was a typo in the control file. The error output was non-existent until I ran dpkg-source.

[GreyGeek]

And How'd it run

(I had about a 50% success rate converting rpms to debs using alien.)

[oshunluvr]

Works great! It's an old 32bit Lightscribe program from LaCie. Just seeing if I could make it work

[GreyGeek]

Ah! Someone on this forum needs it! (You have a Lightscribe CDROM too?)

[oshunluvr]

Yeah, I was digging around to see if I could get it to work. But I can't remember the last time I burned a CD!

[GreyGeek]

Yeah, I was digging around to see if I could get it to work. But I can't remember the last time I burned a CD!

Me too! It's been at lease three years since I burned a CD or played a DVD movie, maybe longer. I just can't remember exactly when. That's why I replaced the CDROM with an HD Caddy and stuck another 750Gb HD into my laptop. 4.7Gb is nothing these days. USB sticks have replaced the CDROM.

And, I still have two unopened 100 CD packs and a third with about 15 DVD-R's left in them.