On 10-Jul-99, 12:40 (CDT), Oscar Levi <elf@buici.com> wrote: > In order to install IBMs DB2, I wrote a perl script that emulates the > rpm command line and then calls dpkg to do the same thing. It appears > to work, though I don't know if I need to emulate the output of rpm. > Is there a reason alien didn't work? Steve