[CentOS] creating centos rpm from deb with alien

Wed Jan 2 03:26:50 UTC 2013
Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>

> From: Juan R. de Silva
> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 21:50
> 
> I want to install GoldenDict on my fresh CentOS 6.3 
> installation. So far I've not found any GoldenDict rpm files 
> created for CentOS.

Did you Google it yet? Lets assume yes and you found the many RPMs listed for
fedora. 

> 
> What about creating rpm from deb using alien?  Would it be 
> safe to attempt such install?

Then your question should be what is the best way to install RPM x which needs
the following dependencies because the RPM is assuming Fedora version X.


> 
> I do not want to screw my new installation.



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