[Novalug] alien rpm to deb conversion

[Ed James]

Bonnie,

    If alien uses rpm, then perhaps it can't find rpm on your machine.
Do you have rpm installed?

Ed James

Quoting Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell at qis.net>:

>
> triing to use alien for rpm to deb conversion of the gimp-ilbm rpm I am
> getting an error:
>
>
>  sudo alien -d gimp-ilbm-0.9.4-1.i386-2.rpm
>
> sh: rpm: command not found
> Error executing "LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat %{SUMMARY}
> gimp-ilbm-0.9.4-1.i386-2.rpm":  at
> /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7/Alien/Package.pm line 482.
>
> ---
> clarification would be appreciated.
>
> why is it looking for rpm as a command?