Ubuntu – How to install Revolution R Enterprise, an rpm, when alien fails

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Revolution R Enterprise is available as a red-hat rpm file. Normally I would use alien to install an rpm file as explained in another more generic question about installing rpms , but the instructions for installing this package have an install.py file that I am supposed to execute.

When I ./install.py, I get the following instructions:

rpm: please use alien to install rpm
packages on Debian, if you are really
sure use –force-debian switch. See
README.Debian for more details.

There is no README.Debian file in the directory, and although I am not proficient in python, I can tell that there are at least four different directories with *rpm files in them.

Has anyone had success with this? If possible, I'd prefer to install the Enterprise version instead of community version in the Ubuntu repository so that I can test it out.

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(non) Answer:

No one has figured out how to install the .rpm using alien or otherwise; even using Wine to host the Windows version does not work.

Good news / options:

the community edition works is available in the Ubuntu repository
Revolution R Enterprise is officially supported (only) on RedHat; but RevolutionR (the company) has also tested and found no no issues, on CentOS, which is freely available and 100% compatible with Redhat. Furthermore, Revolution R Enterprise will install on any distro with rpm; there is evidence of success with Fedora.

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It almost sounds like Alien is being run with the -i flag:

-i, --install
    Automatically install each generated package, and remove the package
    file after it has been installed.

However, from your question that doesn't appear to be true. Different architectures may be the issue here. Try debugging the process further with -v or if that doesn't yield anything: --veryverbose. If you're unable to determine the issue from those flags post the output of each in your original question.

Lastly, try installing ia32-libs package which places a lot of common 32bit shared libraries on your machine. This assists in compiling and running 32bit programs on 64bit machines.

Ubuntu – How to install rpm package in ubuntu when Alien fails

You can always convert RPM files into DEBs with alien command:

$ sudo apt-get install alien
$ sudo alien my_package.rpm
$ sudo dpkg -i my_package.deb

but chances are you'll fail installing the DEB package, mostly because of the name difference of libraries in RHEL and Debian family.

to extract files from a RPM package, rpm2cpio is the tool to use.

$ sudo apt-get install rpm2cpio
$ rpm2cpio /path/to/file.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories

alternatively, some users confirmed file-roller can open rpm files

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