[Cialug] 18.04.deb -> .rpm (current?)

[Andrew Denner]

Historically I have used alien to translate between a deb to rpm but it is
a crap shoot if it will actually work. Does the application have the source
available to build it from scratch?

On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 10:58 AM L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> We are going to start using an application for flying drones, .. but they
> don't support anything other than Windoze, Android, & IOS.
>
> They DO make a .deb set of packages available, but only for Bionic Beaver.
> Currently running on a VM, but that takes a lot of horsepower. Would
> prefer to not run 18.04 native on a laptop, as a smaller device would be a
> lot more desirable for field work.
>
> What are the chances the 18.04 .debs could be ported to a .rpm for a more
> current platform?
>
>         Thanks!
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