sudo alien -k serna-free-4.2.0-20090714.i686.rpm
Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package serna-4.2: postinst postrm
Warning: Use the –scripts parameter to include the scripts.
Package build failed. Here’s the log:
dh_testdir
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k -d
dh_installdirs
dh_installdocs
dh_installchangelogs
find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name debian -print0 | \
xargs -0 -r -i cp -a {} debian/serna-4.2
dh_compress
dh_makeshlibs
dh_installdeb
dh_shlibdeps
dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: couldn’t find library libpython2.6.so.1.0 needed by debian/serna-4.2/usr/local/serna-4.2/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/_multibytecodec.so (its RPATH is ”).
Note: libraries are not searched in other binary packages that do not have any shlibs or symbols file.
To help dpkg-shlibdeps find private libraries, you might need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
dh_shlibdeps: command returned error code 512
make: [binary-arch] Error 1 (ignored)
dh_gencontrol
dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture ‘amd64′ does not appear in package’s architecture list (i386)
dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 65280
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
find: `serna-4.2-4.2.0’: No such file or directory

I hope serna will update their installation processes to support ubuntu.

Thank you,

Ross Ylitalo