Problem in converting .rpm file into .deb file using alien in ubuntu

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Published on 2010-03-27T15:00:50Z Indexed on 2010/03/28 6:43 UTC
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Hi I have converted a i336.rpm file into .deb file in ubuntu using alien successfully. but I am getting the following error while converting i586.rpm file of the same application into .deb file

Unpacking of 'app-1-1.i586.rpm' failed at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm line 155.

I donot know how to resolve this type of issue

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