Install Rpm On Debian Squeeze Update

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1. RPM Package Manager

The RPM was developed at RedHat for keeping track of the files each program or package installed as well as noting what other packages it depended on or depended on it, some information about the source of the package and a brief synopsis.

Apt-get install libstdc++6 libfreetype libjpeg libsofia-sip libyuv libopus libvpx libx264 avconv libavcodec libavutil libsamplerate CentOS The only supported Linux version is on CenOS.
Some time you might find some applications are having only.rpm files but you want a.deb package for your debian,Ubuntu and other debian derived ditributions.If you can't find.deb debian package in any of the debian,ubuntu repositories or elsewhere, you can use the alien package converter to install the.rpm file.

Installing JDK 7 on debian. Openjdk/ppa and then apt-get update and then apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk openjdk-7-doc openjdk-7. Debian squeeze apparently does.

One should avoid using .rpm package on a Debian system.

There are some good (and more not so good) write-ups comparing the two package management systems. A search for rpm vs deb or rpm vs dpkg will turn them up.

todo add some url's for some good ones

Why would anyone want to use the RPM within Debian?

Binary package

If the package only comes in binary

.rpm

format, you can use alien to convert it.

Source Package

In order to extract sources from an rpm archive, it may be necessary to use the rpm tool.
A developer may want to extract package source code that is only available within an rpm archive.

rpm to dpkg/apt command reference

Rpm

This guide may help people switching to a dpkg based distribution like Debian from an RPM based one like RedHat.

A quick comparison of rpm and apt/dpkg command-line arguments

List all installed packages:

List information about an installed package:

List files in an installed package

List information about a package on the local hard drive

List files in a package on the local hard drive

List files in an uninstalled package (depends on dist)

grep through the Contents.arch file found in ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/

Extract files in a package without installing it

(Open it in Midnight Commander (mc) and then enter CONTENTS.cpio(1))
or Midnight Commander works on .debs too.

Install a package from a local file

Remove a package from the system

Identify the package that owns a file

Get information about a remote package

List all remote packages

(1) thanks to Adriaan Penning

(2) i.e. 'dpkg --search /etc' will display all packages that have files in etc.

Derived from a page by Scott Bronson at http://www.trestle.com/linux/rpmdeb.html

Redhat Package Manager (RPM)

RPM was originally designed to be a standalone binary installer for Redhat based GNU/Linux distros (Like Fedora, Mandrake and SUSE). RPM has since been ported to other operating systems such as IBM's AIX and Novell Netware.

Install a .RPM in Debian

To install a .rpm file in a Debian based system you'll need the program Alien. Note that Alien can't work 100% of the time, because rpm and apt are very different.