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From: Nistor Andrei <coder.tux@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 12:43:50 +0300
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On Thursday 10 May 2007, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I thought this question would be quiet common but I've been unable to get
> an answer googling and looking through howtos. Actually there are some
> links in an old thread on forums.gentoo.org but its target seems to have
> moved.
>
> Anyway, how do I install packages in .rpm or .deb without messing up
> portage? Is there something like "alien"?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Florian Philipp


Just a thought... I think you could use alien to convert the rpm to a tar.gz, 
then use "emerge /path/to/whatever.tar.gz". (IIRC that's a way you can 
install a binary package...). That should make portage aware of the package 
being installed, but I think that you must install the deps by hand...
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