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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?
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you can translate the pkg into an arch pkg with rpmunpack:
http://www.archlinux.org/packages.php?id=749
examples:
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Thanks for the typically quick reply on this forum. I'll take a look at that.
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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
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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.
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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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