Installing rpm on slackware

You can use the same steps, but you have to replace the rpm2tgz command with the alien command. That command will produce DEB. And to install them just use apt-get --install command followed by your DEB file name. Posted by Lucky at PM. Labels: Linux. Newer Post Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom. Web Hosting Services.

Total Visitors Optimized Cable. It does not remove the package. If the packages have the same name, then you only need to run upgradepkg packagename to perform the upgrade. The program uses the contents of the current directory to create the package.

Be sure to take a look at the manpage for makepkg for information about the embedded scripts that you can put in a Slackware package. It does not execute the embedded scripts in the package. This utility is most useful for maintenance purposes exploding a package, updating it, then rebuilding with makepkg. In case you ever run across the need to obtain something that is only in RPM format, this program may come in handy.

The syntax is: rpm2targz [filename]. Slackware comes with a handy utility called oddly enough "rpm2tgz". Simply run this on your rpm file and thats it.

This took a little more time to figure out. Then once again run the relevent command. The file we are interested in is the "data. To extract it we simply use the "ar" command. This leaves us with the three files above from which we select the data.