Installing packages
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Please do not use rpm directly to install packages. Install the alien
package and use the alien command to convert/install a rpm package using
dpkg. Use of rpm to install packages is verbosely complaining on Debian
systems (you can disable these warnings by --force-debian).
Fixing database after upgrade
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If you rpm database is non empty, you might face problems after upgrading
because different libdb version is being used.
To recover content of old database use following steps:
1. Install corresponding db*-util package. At time writing it is
db4.8-util (the version should match libdb version which rpm
uses).
sudo apt-get install db4.8-util
2. Go to the directory with your rpm database:
cd ~/.rpmdb
3. Recover the database using db*_recover.
db4.8_recover ./
4. Rebuild rpm database.
rpm --dbpath `pwd` --rebuilddb
5. Verify that the database is correct.
rpm --dbpath `pwd` -qa
Source packages location
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If you are using rpm to build rpm packages, or unpack source rpms, note
that on Debian systems, rpm uses /usr/src/rpm/, instead of
/usr/src/redhat/ or /usr/src/packages/.
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