So I am currently migrating from Windows to Tumbleweed on my Dell XPS 13 9370 despite being new to Linux and couldn’t be happier as almost everything works like a charm.
That being said, I am trying to install the Dell Command | Configure utility on Tumbleweed but I can’t seem to find the relevant package in the openSUSE repositories. Dell provides a Debian based package for the utility which can be found here and installs fine under Ubuntu. However there doesn’t seem to be one offered for openSUSE and I can’t seem to be able to find a package in the SUSE repository for it.
I did some additional research to see if it is possible to somehow install .deb files in Tumbleweed and it seems that the reluctant suggestion across older forum posts is to use alien to make the conversion however alien has not been maintained for nearly 4 years. Besides, the installation requires a an older version of perl than the one installed and won’t install as a result, the terminal output is listed below:
Problem: nothing provides perl = 5.18.2 needed by alien-8.88-3.1.x86_64
Solution 1: do not install alien-8.88-3.1.x86_64
Solution 2: break alien-8.88-3.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies
Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/c] (c): c
taker@xps13:~/Downloads> perl -v
This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 2 (v5.26.2) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi***
So I am out of options trying to get this to work under Tumbleweed, any help is much appreciated.
Something’s wrong here, I build a set of packages in my repo and alien is one of them, but it is not in the distro itself. Could you tell me where you try to install alien from?
And please show us your repos, i.e.output from
Sorry it took me a while to reply, a lot of unplanned stuff came up all at the same time that required my attention first.
Anyhow, as for you question, I followed the suggestion from the last post in this previous thread. for the sake of brevity I am including the suggestion here as well.
zypper in https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/utilities/openSUSE_Leap_42.3/x86_64/alien-8.88-3.1.x86_64.rpm
I could not install the package from inside the terminal with the above suggested command so what I did instead was
downloading the rpm file to my download folder and then trying to install it from the terminal and received the
error posted in my original message.
The below is the output of my repos as you had asked for
As for the RedHat rpms available on the page you posted, the RHEL6 is linked to the wrong page (it is linked to the Windows MSI download instead).
The RHEL7 is linked to the right page, and the right file, which installs just fine however the utility does not function as it does under Ubuntu throwing the below error.
taker@xps13:~> sudo /opt/dell/dcc/cctk --primarybatterycfg=custom:50-55
[sudo] password for root:
corrupted size vs. prev_size
Aborted
This same command works just fine in Ubuntu as I mentioned already so there is no issue with the command being used.
I still haven’t tried the installation of the Alien that you had outlined in your first post due to the lack of time. That being said I am stuck, don’t know what to do next really.