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I'm trying to install Maya 2017 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
So far, everything looks good until it comes to the alien command to get .deb out of the .rpm.

root@Borderline-Central:~/maya2017Install# alien -c *.rpm
sh: 1: rpm: not found
Error executing "LANG=C rpm -qp --queryformat %{NAME}'adlmapps12-12.0.32-0.x86_64.rpm'":  at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package.pm line 489.

root@Borderline-Central:~# apt install rpm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree  
Reading state information... Done
rpm is already the newest version (4.12.0.1+dfsg1-3build3).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

root@Borderline-Central:~# rpm
The program 'rpm' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
apt install rpm

If I try

for i in *.rpm; do sudo alien -cv $i; done

Same problem with rpm not found.

I've tried to purge rpm, installed it again. It doesn't help at all

I've started with Ubuntu a month ago so I'm new and I think I'm missing something.

rpm is installed but can't be found somehow.

What's the problem and how can I fix it?

It's not a duplicate question, I've done the installation similar to the description in the link to GitHub. But my problem is that rpm isn't found even if it's said rpm is already the newest version. So still the question. How can I fix the missing rpm problem!?

As requested the output of which rpm and ls -l /usr/bin/rpm 

hethu@Borderline-Central:~$ which rpm  
/usr/bin/rpm  

hethu@Borderline-Central:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/rpm  
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15208 Jan 19  2016 /usr/bin/rpm
Hethu
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  • Why are you running as root? – Zanna Mar 01 '18 at 14:39
  • I've tried it with the sudo command... and I had the same issue. So, I had the idea running sudo -i and do the whole process again in another directory. – Hethu Mar 01 '18 at 15:26
  • Could you please [edit] your question to include the output of which rpm and ls -l /usr/bin/rpm? Thanks. – David Foerster Mar 08 '18 at 20:25
  • Well, thanks to David Foerster... At least one who've seen that it isn't a duplicate question. Did the other guys just read the title? I couldn't get a solution to the missing rpm file yet... Maybe someone of those who voted for a duplicate question can show me where the solution is about my problem... But I think this can be closed and deleted... thanks... – Hethu Mar 14 '18 at 13:24
  • @Hethu Completely same problem, did you solve it and if so how did? – Salih Karagoz May 11 '19 at 13:44
  • @Hethu it is not a duplicate question, a thumbs up from me :) – Salih Karagoz May 11 '19 at 13:48
  • I solved it, sudo apt install rpm --reinstall – Salih Karagoz May 11 '19 at 14:17

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