Listing 1. Converting the Red Hat-Compatible RPM into a Debian deb

alien -k bcast-2000c-1.i386.rpm
  dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of libbcbase.so
                  not recognized
  bcast_2000c-1_i386.deb generated

dpkg -i bcast_2000c-1_i386.deb

find /usr -name libbcbase.so -print
  /usr/local/bcast/libbcbase.so

vi /etc/ld.so.conf
/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/aw/maya4.0/lib
/usr/local/bcast
/usr/local/lib

ldconfig

/usr/local/bcast/bcast2000.sh