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How to install a deb file in openSuse

Sometimes you’ll find a download of a deb file that you cannot find in the repositories, or a suitable rpm file for your openSuse installation. If that’s the case you can attempt using alien.

1. su (type root password)

2. Install alien: zypper in alien

3. Run: alien -r packagename.deb –scripts

Thats the command to convert to rpm from deb, you should probably use –scripts because some packages need scripts that run and they need to be converted as well. So now you’re all done. Check to see if the application works. It may not work in all cases.

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2 Responses to “How to install a deb file in openSuse”

  1. cg Says:
    September 15th, 2008 at 7:14 pm

    thanks for the hint, it worked for me
    BUT in step 3 it needs to be “–scripts” or “-c”

  2. cg Says:
    September 15th, 2008 at 7:17 pm

    alright, seems like this website has a problem with two hyphens…
    the command in step3 needs two of them just before “scripts”
    alternately it works with -c as well

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