Installin rpms on non-redhat system

[Ralf Corsepius]

jgais at ws.estec.esa.nl wrote:
> 
> Is there a way of installing the binary rpms on a non-redhat system?
> 
> I'm using slackware-7.0, and the rpm2tgz utilities only return an
> empty tar file when I run it on the rtems rpms. 

I don't know what rpm2tgz is, however I have been able to
successfully convert the rpms to slp and tgz using alien under SuSE
(an rpm based distribution).

Ralf

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