Question for Linux Users?
Sunday, August 8th, 2010 at
05:14
I am fairly new to Linux. Is there a simple and user friendly program I can use to convert a tarball into an RPM?
Thanks
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you need to install configure and make and some other stuff. google "how to compile" software linux. Beware though, its a lot trickier than using a package manager. You will have to make sure you have all the dependencies for it to work.
There’s a program called Alien that converts RPMs to DEBs. Not sure if it does the reverse, but if it does, or if you can find something that will do it AND your software is avaiable as a DEB then you’re in business.
nope. tarball is the source code that runs on any distro, but needs to be compiled. rpm is already compiled for a specific distro
but you might be able to find it as an rpm by going into your package manager or on google