Thread: Alien error ( unable to mkdir -: )

hey guys have problem alien on ubuntu 11.04 64bit. when try convert maya 2012 packeges error in of them.

running command:

code:

sudo alien -cv adlmapps4-4.0.35-0.x86_64.rpm

output:

code:

	lang=c rpm -qp --queryformat %{name} adlmapps4.rpm  	lang=c rpm -qp --queryformat %{version} adlmapps4.rpm  	lang=c rpm -qp --queryformat %{release} adlmapps4.rpm  	lang=c rpm -qp --queryformat %{arch} adlmapps4.rpm  	lang=c rpm -qp --queryformat %{changelogtext} adlmapps4.rpm  	lang=c rpm -qp --queryformat %{summary} adlmapps4.rpm  	lang=c rpm -qp --queryformat %{description} adlmapps4.rpm  	lang=c rpm -qp --queryformat %{prefixes} adlmapps4.rpm  	lang=c rpm -qp --queryformat %{postin} adlmapps4.rpm  	lang=c rpm -qp --queryformat %{postun} adlmapps4.rpm  	lang=c rpm -qp --queryformat %{preun} adlmapps4.rpm  	lang=c rpm -qp --queryformat %{license} adlmapps4.rpm  	lang=c rpm -qp --queryformat %{prein} adlmapps4.rpm  	lang=c rpm -qcp adlmapps4.rpm  	rpm -qpi adlmapps4.rpm  	lang=c rpm -qpl adlmapps4.rpm  	mkdir -  mkdir: cannot create directory `-': file exists  unable mkdir -:  @ /usr/share/perl5/alien/package.pm line 257.

any ideas? alien bug, rpm fault or maybe doing wrong?

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