converting RPM to DEB

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Alan DuBoff (maestro@SoftOrchestra.com):

> Will definitely heed your advice and use alien.

Might I suggest a different option?  Since this is a desktop system, 
and presumably not extremely mission-critical, you should consider
upgrading it to potato, the current "unstable" branch.  I have a a
potato-based system (a laptop) with Enlightenment and GNOME, and 
they seem to be _extremely_ recent versions.

To upgrade to potato, edit etc/apt/sources.list to contain:

   deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

Then do "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade".  You are now running
the "potato" versions of all your original packages.

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