Convert .deb to .rpm, possible?

I'd really like to try out SpiderOak, but unfortunately there's no .rpm file provided and just a .deb. Is it possible to convert the file to an rpm? I've heard of the program alien, but I couldn't figure out which version to install on the AAO. Cheers.

 

Okay I figured out how to do this myself, for anyone who wants to do the same thing here is how you do it:

1. Download and install alien from here: http://www.4shared.com/file/32845863/a7 ... oarch.html
2. Open up terminal and type sudo yum install rpm-build
3. Open a terminal in the location where your .deb file is saved and type sudo alien -r yourfilenamehere.deb
4. Give it a while (mine took about 30 seconds) and then it should complete and you'll have a .rpm file in your folder.

 

Okay, the conversion allowed me to go as far as installing the program but that's about it, heh. I can see SpiderOak Backup in my Network menu but when I click on it, it doesn't do anything. Ah well. :cry:

 

Try launching it from a terminal so that you can see what the error is.

 

That's just typing SpiderOak in a terminal isn't it? Sorry, I'm a complete linux newbie. I've tried that anyway, and nothing comes up, it just goes down to the next line ready for another command.

 

Re: Convert .deb to .rpm, possible? SpiderOak

Any luck with this please? - I'd also like to run SpiderOak - works great on Mac, PC and will on Linux if I can get it to run.

 

I also tried this

1. Download and install alien from here: http://www.4shared.com/file/32845863/a7 ... oarch.html
2. Open up terminal and type sudo yum install rpm-build
3. Open a terminal in the location where your .deb file is saved and type sudo alien -r yourfilenamehere.deb
4. Give it a while (mine took about 30 seconds) and then it should complete and you'll have a .rpm file in your folder.

But had to insert another step between 2 and 3:

1A. rpm -ivh alien-8.69-1.fc8.noarch.rpm

When I ran "sudo alien -r yourfilenamehere.deb" I got a warning saying sudo alien -r yourfilenamehere.deb saying I should use the --scripts flag. But otherwise seemed to work and I now have the .rpm file.

Ran $ sudo rpm -ivh spideroak-6005-2.i386.rpm

which seemed to work. I now have SpiderOak backup in my Xfce network menu. But as with the previous poster running it does nothing.

 

Re-ran with --scripts - and reinstalled using --replacepkgs

Now I get an error message /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.3797 line 14 apt-key: command not found

Can I anyone offer any insight into this?

Thanks in advance.