Thanks for inspiring me. My system is Ubuntu based so first I had to google for converting RPM to deb and I found Alien. So I run alien and it runs successfuly (I think). But no lightning bolt anywhere to be seen! Any ideas what I did wrong?

bmike1@Michaels-Presario ~/Programs/Jupiter $ sudo alien -i *
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 069c119e: NOKEY
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 069c119e: NOKEY
Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package jupiter: postinst
Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts.
warning: jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 069c119e: NOKEY
    dpkg --no-force-overwrite -i jupiter_0.0.51-4_all.deb
Selecting previously deselected package jupiter.
(Reading database ... 172494 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking jupiter (from jupiter_0.0.51-4_all.deb) ...
Setting up jupiter (0.0.51-4) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
bmike1@Michaels-Presario ~/Programs/Jupiter $ sudo updatedb
bmike1@Michaels-Presario ~/Programs/Jupiter $ locate jupiter*
/home/bmike1/Downloads/jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm
/home/bmike1/Programs/Jupiter/jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm
bmike1@Michaels-Presario ~/Programs/Jupiter $ jupiter
jupiter: command not found
bmike1@Michaels-Presario ~/Programs/Jupiter $


On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Brian Weaver <bjweaver@gmail.com> wrote:
Try this.. :)

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+install+a+linux+RPM

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
well, I extracted the rpm and go

     bmike1@Michaels-Presario ~/Programs/Jupiter $ ls -l
     total 60
     drwxrwxr-x 4 bmike1 bmike1  4096 2011-11-29 08:07 etc
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 bmike1 bmike1 47296 2011-11-28 20:21 jupiter-0.0.51-3.noarch.rpm
     drwxrwxr-x 5 bmike1 bmike1  4096 2011-11-29 08:07 usr
     drwxrwxr-x 3 bmike1 bmike1  4096 2011-11-29 08:07 var
     bmike1@Michaels-Presario ~/Programs/Jupiter $

What else am I supposed to do to install it?
--
:-)~MIKE~(-:

---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss


---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss



--
:-)~MIKE~(-: