Installing rpm or deb packages

samdavid6 · 2009-02-19 23:52:36

Hey all, I'm using Arch and I have a problem. A package that I need - libbarry0 - seems to only be available in deb or rpm format.

How can I install this. Everyone talks about making a package yourself, but I have no clue to find the source and make this package.

Can anyone help..? I cant find any resources on Google, I cant believe I'm the only person who has this problem.

tomk · 2009-02-20 00:01:53

Source tarball available here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile … _id=170564

mcmillan · 2009-02-20 00:19:24

There's deb2targz which will convert from a .deb to .tar.gz format where you can install that. If you want pacman to handle it as an arch package you might want to take a look at the pkgbuild for amazonmp3 in the AUR. That's built using deb2targz so it will be a good start to see how it works.

Edit: looks like I was slow coming back to this and got beaten with the actual source code, which would be even better

Last edited by mcmillan (2009-02-20 00:20:40)

samdavid6 · 2009-02-20 00:28:17

Source tarball available here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile … _id=170564

That doesnt help. The page has source files for the -barry- package, but the -libbarry- package is only in deb or rpm.

Mcmillan, I downloaded the deb and used deb2targz which made a tar.gz file. But I'm unsure on how to make pacman use that. I'll take a look at the amazonmp3 package, but if you told me what I need to be doing (bit of a noob), It would save me lots of time.

**edit: Looks like AUR is down too :-( **

Last edited by samdavid6 (2009-02-20 00:46:08)

Inxsible · 2009-02-20 01:37:12

samdavid6 wrote:

Source tarball available here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile … _id=170564
That doesnt help. The page has source files for the -barry- package, but the -libbarry- package is only in deb or rpm.
Mcmillan, I downloaded the deb and used deb2targz which made a tar.gz file. But I'm unsure on how to make pacman use that. I'll take a look at the amazonmp3 package, but if you told me what I need to be doing (bit of a noob), It would save me lots of time.
**edit: Looks like AUR is down too :-( **

if you have already created a tar.gz from the deb, then its a simple matter of installing it using pacman

pacman -U /path/to/filename.tar.gz

Also do a

man pacman

to find out more about the options that pacman provides

tdy · 2009-02-20 02:15:40

Inxsible wrote:

if you have already created a tar.gz from the deb, then its a simple matter of installing it using pacman
pacman -U /path/to/filename.tar.gz
Also do a
man pacman
to find out more about the options that pacman provides

Pacman will not install a tarball that you get from a deb. The tarball that you get from a deb is just a compressed usr/ directory containing all the package files. You still need to write a simple PKGBUILD that copies usr/ (and any other directories) over to $pkgdir, and then create a pkg.tar.gz via makepkg.

Inxsible · 2009-02-20 02:24:03

tdy wrote:

Inxsible wrote:
if you have already created a tar.gz from the deb, then its a simple matter of installing it using pacman
pacman -U /path/to/filename.tar.gz
Also do a
man pacman
to find out more about the options that pacman provides
Pacman will not install a tarball that you get from a deb. The tarball that you get from a deb is just a compressed usr/ directory containing all the package files. You still need to write a simple PKGBUILD that copies usr/ (and any other directories) over to $pkgdir, and then create a pkg.tar.gz via makepkg.

Aah ! I stand corrected then. I thought that the app that the OP used, converts the deb to Arch pkg.tar.gz

Thanks for the info.

samdavid6 · 2009-02-20 03:15:17

Pacman will not install a tarball that you get from a deb. The tarball that you get from a deb is just a compressed usr/ directory containing all the package files. You still need to write a simple PKGBUILD that copies usr/ (and any other directories) over to $pkgdir, and then create a pkg.tar.gz via makepkg.

forgive the noobiness.. but how do I do this..?

Allan · 2009-02-20 03:56:54

samdavid6 wrote:

Source tarball available here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile … _id=170564
That doesnt help. The page has source files for the -barry- package, but the -libbarry- package is only in deb or rpm.

The barry source file will include the libbarrry code.

tomk · 2009-02-20 08:00:08

The barry package in the AUR provides libbarry.

raj7095 · 2010-03-28 14:31:22

You can also install dpkg, which is in the aur. With dpkg, you can install any .deb packages without converting them. It works for me. I installed ubuntu sound theme and the installation went perfectly fine.

tomk · 2010-03-28 18:21:31

rAj7095 - this thread is over a year old. Please read this.

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#1 2009-02-19 23:52:36

Installing rpm or deb packages

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