Drivers Installation in Linux of HP Probook 4530s

[hassan329]

I am new in Linux, i have installed Ubuntu-10.10 in my notebook hp pro-book-4530s. now i want to install the drivers in it which is available in hp site. Ubuntu automatically install it but the mouse driver and some feature are not available like disable touch pad while typing. i download the drivers (http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=5060882&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=5060880&swLang=13&taskId=135&swEnvOID=2020) but i do not know how to install them. Please help me. Thank you.

[hassan329]

please help

[LizardMan]

I downloaded one of the drivers and saw that it is a .rpm file. Ubuntu normally uses .deb files. You need to convert the drivers to .deb to be able to install.
There’s a utility called Alien that converts packages from one format to the other.

Run this command to install alien and other necessary packages:

sudo apt-get install alien dpkg-dev debhelper build-essential

To convert a package from rpm to debian format, use this command syntax:

sudo alien -d packagename.rpm

To install the package, you’ll use the dpkg utility, which is the internal package management tool behind debian and Ubuntu.

sudo dpkg -i packagename.deb

Source

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Example

Suppose you have to install the touch pad driver HP-SLED-Commercial-15.3.18_32.rpm file

To convert .rpm to debian

sudo alien -k HP-SLED-Commercial-15.3.18_32.rpm

Now you should be having HP-SLED-Commercial-15.3.18_32.deb file

To install .deb file

sudo dpkg -i HP-SLED-Commercial-15.3.18_32.deb

[Bearcat]

Very nice tutorial Lizard! Thanks for taking the time to post it!

[hassan329]

Thank you bude you for this tutorial

I downloaded one of the drivers and saw that it is a .rpm file. Ubuntu normally uses .deb files. You need to convert the drivers to .deb to be able to install.
There’s a utility called Alien that converts packages from one format to the other.

Run this command to install alien and other necessary packages:

sudo apt-get install alien dpkg-dev debhelper build-essential

To convert a package from rpm to debian format, use this command syntax:

sudo alien -d packagename.rpm

To install the package, you’ll use the dpkg utility, which is the internal package management tool behind debian and Ubuntu.

sudo dpkg -i packagename.deb

Source

---------- Post added at 12:42 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:35 AM ----------

Example

Suppose you have to install the touch pad driver HP-SLED-Commercial-15.3.18_32.rpm file

To convert .rpm to debian

sudo alien -k HP-SLED-Commercial-15.3.18_32.rpm

Now you should be having HP-SLED-Commercial-15.3.18_32.deb file

To install .deb file

sudo dpkg -i HP-SLED-Commercial-15.3.18_32.deb