How to install a deb file in openSuse
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
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.