The pain of trying to install a .deb package on Fedora using Alien

Oct 07, 2014, 04:00 (2 Talkback[s])
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The only other method that I am aware of is to use alien to convert the .deb package to a .rpm package, then install the generated RPM package using either yum or alien itself. Unfortunately, all my attempts at that failed.