Installing XXX.src.rpm on Mint (Ubuntu)

Fri Jan 23 18:39:09 UTC 2009

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:17:18PM -0500, Stephen W. Clarke wrote:
> I've got a Planar PT1701MU touchscreen monitor that I want to use with a
> Mint (Ubuntu) system. Unfortunately, the manufacturer (3M) only provides
> the drivers in an .src.rpm file. Can anyone on this list explain to me how
> to install this on my Mint system?
> 
> alien -k XXX.src.rpm didn't appear to work, and my googling attempts have
> so far proven futile.
> 
> Any suggestions are appreciated.

Use rpm to extract the source package, then look at the sources and
build scritps and figure out now to build it yourself.

alien only deals with binary packages.

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