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November 7, 2011
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Create RPM native installer under Ubuntu

  • November 7, 2011
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Hi all,

I'm successfully creating .deb native installers on an Ubuntu machine from a .air file. I'm using AIR 2.6 SDK.

On the same machine I tried  creating .rpm packages from the same .air file but without success.

It seems that the .rpm package is corrupted. After some tests it turned out that the .rpm is just a .deb package renamed.

Do I need to build the package under a different distribution that supports .rpm or maybe did I something  wrong?

Thanks for any help,

Paolo

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Hi Paolo,

That is the expected behavior. To create native installers for a particular distribution, you have to create it natively on that machine. eg, on Windows, you can only create an exe, on Mac a dmg, on Debian distros, a .deb and so on.(You may rename it to any other extension, but it won't work)

So, to build a rpm, you have to be natively on a distro that supports RPM(officially supported RPM distros are Opensuse and Fedora)

Hope this helps.

Neha

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Anonymous
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November 8, 2011

Hi Paolo,

That is the expected behavior. To create native installers for a particular distribution, you have to create it natively on that machine. eg, on Windows, you can only create an exe, on Mac a dmg, on Debian distros, a .deb and so on.(You may rename it to any other extension, but it won't work)

So, to build a rpm, you have to be natively on a distro that supports RPM(officially supported RPM distros are Opensuse and Fedora)

Hope this helps.

Neha

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Anonymous
November 8, 2011

Thanks a lot for your explanation Neha.

I was wrongly assuming Linux as an unique platform regarding native installers...

I'll use your suggested distros.

Best regards,

Paolo

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