[ale] Alien error

[Jim]

Is rpm installed on your system?
joh6nn wrote:

>sort of a convoluted path to follow, but here goes:
>
>i noticed that i could consistently crash Gaim, so before filing a bug
>report, i thought to try moving from 1.5 up to the 2.0 beta, and see if
>the bug was still present.  however, i'm running Kubuntu, and the new
>beta seems to be available only as either a source tar-ball, or as an
>rpm.  i didn't really want to compile from source, so i thought, "no
>problem, just 'apt-get install alien', and be on my way".  no dice.  i
>can convert a .deb package to .rpm without any problems, but .rpm to
>.deb will fail with the following error message, regardless of .rpm (i
>downloaded some others just to check):
>
>Error executing "LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat %{SUMMARY} gaim.rpm":  at
>/usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package.pm line 449.
>
>i've googled, and found other people have had similar problems, but the
>pages i found were in languages i don't speak, and there were no
>immediately obvious solutions provided.
>
>anyone have an idea?
>
>
>-joh6nn
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