RPM files: can Arch handle them?

ralvy · 2005-02-24 04:43:44

I have an application that is only offered in RPM format. No source code. Is there a way for me to get Arch to install and use it?

dp · 2005-02-24 04:49:43

you can translate the pkg into an arch pkg with rpmunpack:

examples:

ralvy · 2005-02-24 04:58:34

Thanks for the typically quick reply on this forum. I'll take a look at that.

iphitus · 2005-02-24 06:23:56

rpmunpack makes the archive a cpio file, not an arch package tgz.

try rpm2targz, its what i use, while it doesnt make an arch tgz installable through pacman, all you need to do is cd to / and extract it there.

Its on staging TUR:

staging/rpm2targz 9.0-s1
    Convert a .rpm to a .tar.gz archive

or for ya pacman.conf

[staging]
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/tur/staging

iBertus · 2005-02-24 06:24:47

Once you get used to rpmunpack you could make an Arch package for your program using ABS. Then you would have a nice neatly managed program.

dp · 2005-02-24 06:47:10

iphitus wrote:

rpmunpack makes the archive a cpio file, not an arch package tgz.

of course not - yes - if you look at the examples it is like this:

  rpmunpack jdk-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.rpm
  gunzip < jdk-1.5.0_01-fcs.cpio.gz | cpio -ivd

and then you have everything extracted and ready to be packed

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