How to open an RPm file

[Guest]

I downloaded a game of the linux website and it is a RPM file. What are the steps to open this file.
Thanks

[Qqmike]

Re: How to open an RPm file

Psychocats: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/index.php
As I recall, she addresses this specific issue on her site (somewhere).

[arochester]

Re: How to open an RPm file

You can load an RPM using a program called "alien"

[dibl]

Re: How to open an RPm file

Actually alien converts the .rpm file to a .deb file.

Then, if you're lucky and it doesn't have unmet dependencies, you can install the .deb with dpkg or kpackage.

[Qqmike]

Re: How to open an RPm file

Like so ... (follow her link re alien, too ...):

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/ins...re#lastresorts

[arochester]

Re: How to open an RPm file

P.S.

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/index This is Aysiu's documentation site

An interview with Aysiu includes "I’m under 40, male, and married" !!!

[Qqmike]

Re: How to open an RPm file

What?! And all this time I thought otherwise, based on something I had read. Well that shows to go ya, you just never know, even when you know ...
Now I'll be looking all the time for the references where I got this misinformation.