converting rpm files to debian error (package build failed)

Question

after I install alien and having zenmap in the download folder

when I run this command alien zenmap-7.91-1.noarch.rpm or any command related to it I get this error

package build failed. here's the log:

dh
dh: error:specify sequence to run
make:***[debian/rules:7:binary]Error 25

how do I fix this error? please help...

Solution 1

First just to make sure you don't have any rpm problems run this command:

apt-get --fix-broken install

Then you may need these:

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pygtk/python-gtk2_2.24.0-5.1ubuntu2_amd64.deb

wget http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pygobject-2/python-gobject-2_2.28.6-14ubuntu1_amd64.deb

wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pycairo/python-cairo_1.16.2-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb

dpkg -i python-gobject-2_2.28.6-14ubuntu1_amd64.deb 

dpkg -i python-cairo_1.16.2-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb

dpkg -i python-gtk2_2.24.0-5.1ubuntu2_amd64.deb

And after you have all that installed lets make sure our alien version is 8.90.

Remove alien:

apt-get remove alien

Download alien 8.90 version here.

Install alien:

dpkg -i alien_8.90_all.deb

Now we will locate our zenmap file and run these commands:

sudo alien zenmap-7.91-1.noarch.rpm

sudo dpkg -i **YOUR-ZENMAP-FILE**.deb

If those commands run perfectly you can now run:

sudo zenmap

Et voilà! :)

Solution 2

I had the same issue installing Zenmap in kali linux.

Package build failed. Here's the log: dh: error: specify a sequence to run make: *** [debian/rules:7: binary] Error 25

To solve this, I had to downgrade to Alien version 8.90, since I was using 8.95.3

There is some information online, and it's also detailed in the changelogs as well, explaining some changes performed on the latest alien updates and how they read the dh headers. Zenmap.rpm packages seem to be non-compilant with these updates.

I downgraded to a different Alien version to skip these dh verification changes.

To do so, I uninstalled the current alien version with

apt-get remove alien

Then, from https://pkgs.org/download/alien I downloaded Ubuntu Main amd64 Official alien_8.90_all.deb

installed with: dpkg -i alien_8.90_all.deb

Downloaded the latest Zenmap rpm version here https://nmap.org/dist

and successfully converted rpm to deb running

alien zenmap-X.XX.noarch.rpm

Once the RPM was converted to .deb, you could run

dpkg -i zenmap-X.XX.noarch.deb

App would not open, running from CLI I figured that some python libs failed to load

Could not import the zenmapGUI.App module: 'No module named gtk'. I checked in these directories: /usr/bin /usr/share/offsec-awae-wheels/colorama-0.4.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl /usr/share/offsec-awae-wheels/pyOpenSSL-19.1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl ...

As suggested in this post I download the packages:

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pygtk/python-gtk2_2.24.0-5.1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
wget http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pygobject-2/python-gobject-2_2.28.6-14ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pycairo/python-cairo_1.16.2-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb

Then installed with dpkg

dpkg -i python-gtk2_2.24.0-5.1ubuntu2_amd64.deb 
dpkg -i python-gobject-2_2.28.6-14ubuntu1_amd64.deb 
dpkg -i python-cairo_1.16.2-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb

Now Zenmap is working beautifully.

Solution 3

You can install the package directly using -i option:

sudo alien -i zenmap-7.91-1.noarch.rpm

Also you can use fpm to convert an rpm to deb, to install it:

sudo apt install ruby ruby-dev rubygems build-essential
sudo gem install --no-document fpm

To convert:

fpm -s rpm -t deb zenmap-7.91-1.noarch.rpm 

Comments

[smartini]

can you explain again how to install zenmap after installing alien? somehow I miss this part in your explenation.

[Adrián Bacceli]

Just edited the post: Once Alien 8.90 is installed, you'll be able to convert the RPM to deb running alien zenmap-X.XX.noarch.rpm Once the RPM was converted to .deb, you could run dpkg -i zenmap-X.XX.noarch.deb to install