Hey all.
I'm trying to install Substance Painter and they provide a Linux AppImage, which is awesome. The AppImage runs great, but it tries to install Substance Painter as an .rpm file. This is a huge bummer. Online I'm seeing that people who use Debian based distros can convert the .rpm file to .deb with a tool called "Alien." Do we have anything like that which could convert .rpm (or just run .rpm, truly)?
Thanks!

    Bhibb changed the title to Run .rpm or convert .rpm packages? .

    Bhibb The AppImage runs great, but it tries to install Substance Painter as an .rpm file

    So entirely defeating the primary benefit of providing an AppImage then. 👏 👏 👏

    There is no magic program to turn a rpm or deb into an eopkg.

        Bhibb
        Which would still be useless as Solus does not use .deb packages.

          Bhibb I heard that after Adobe bought Substance, for linux is available install only from Steam

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            Harvey There is no magic program to turn a rpm or deb into an eopkg.

            That's a shame. The only way I can get my printer to work is by installing the rpm driver package (only available in 32bit). Everything else works beautifully on Solus, except the printer. Having to power down, swap hard drives and boot back up, just to print something off, is a major pita. I was hoping there was something like Alien or rpm2tgz.

                salparadise1 rpm can be manually unpackages and moved into the specific folders, you may have to set permissions correct or run maybe a shell script. This is what we are doing with brother drivers

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                    Harvey So entirely defeating the primary benefit of providing an AppImage then.

                    My first thought also. How backwards is that? Using an AppImage to trigger an rpm install? Can't believe this is the case.
                    But I was also unaware that Adobe had acquired Allegorithmic. All of a sudden it makes much more "sense".
                    If someone can do something that stupid, it had to be Adobe. 😅

                      salparadise1

                      salparadise1 That's a shame.

                      What is a shame? Solus not supporting 32-bit rpm's or your printer provider not releasing proper drivers?

                          Girtablulu You could also deconstruct the source-rpm's and build as usual or create a Solus package.

                            Bhibb if you really wanna convert rpm packages to eopkg then,

                            1) you first convert rpm to deb using alien tool you mentioned.

                            2) Then convert deb to eopkg using either manual way for packaging solus packages as .deb acts as a zip file, or you can use the scripts provided by Solus 3rdParty repo, that repo also uses these tactics to convert deb to eopkg.

                            You can google / duck them if you want to know more about solus packages and solus 3rd party repo.

                                prateekmedia This is a great recommendation. Thank you for this. I've been wanting to take a closer look at Solus packaging, and this might be a nice place to start.