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   Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:19:18 +0000   
   From: Alan Gregory    
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   Subject: Re: AVG in Kubuntu?   
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   Moog wrote:   
   > "Alan Gregory" illuminated the devils arse on Saturday 17 February 2007   
   > 18:13 in alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:   
   >    
   >    
   >>Well, the bad news is that Grisoft only seem to distribute AVG in .RPM   
   >>format, as used by RedHat, Mandriva etc. Ubuntu uses .deb files, so this   
   >>is probably where your problem lies.   
   >    
   >    
   > If that's the case, then the Original Poster could try using..........   
   >    
   > $ sudo alien -k "name_and_path_of_avg_package".rpm    
   >    
   > and then installing the resulting Debian package with GDebi package   
   > installer.   
   >    
   > Alien must first be installed   
   > $ sudo apt-get install alien   
   >    
   > HTH.   
   >    
      
   Thanks for the heads-up on alien, Moog. I get the impression that there    
   are loads more packages in rpm format than there are in deb, so alien    
   should be very useful.   
      
   -Alan   
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