How to install Screaming Frog

[georg]

I am new to Fedora and need to install Screaming Frog Seo Spider for my Work (-> https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk). They have only a .deb Version for download. How could i manage to run it on Fedora? If possible at all.
Would appreciate experienced users giving me some hints.
Thanks
Georg

[BossHog]

I am new to Fedora and need to install Screaming Frog Seo Spider for my Work (-> https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk). They have only a .deb Version for download. How could i manage to run it on Fedora? If possible at all.
Would appreciate experienced users giving me some hints.
Thanks
Georg

The package "alien" converts .deb to .rpm. It fails in this case:

[root@localhost Downloads]# alien --scripts screamingfrogseospider_15.2_all.deb
[root@localhost Downloads]# ls
 backup
  ISO
 screamingfrogseospider_15.2_all.deb
 Torrent
[root@localhost Downloads]#

It does not convert.

Migrate to mint or ubuntu.

[georg]

Thanks a lot!

[ocratato]

An option for running alternate distributions is to set up a virtual machine, or perhaps a container.
That way you can keep Fedora for your machine, but still have Mint for your program.

[BossHog]

An option for running alternate distributions is to set up a virtual machine, or perhaps a container.
That way you can keep Fedora for your machine, but still have Mint for your program.

TS does not want tat. He or she wants to install a deb file on fedora.

Thanks ay way... Reading is rocketscience for you???????

[georg]

An option for running alternate distributions is to set up a virtual machine, or perhaps a container.
That way you can keep Fedora for your machine, but still have Mint for your program.

Yes, I think this will be my option to go with Fedora.
Thank you.

[BossHog]

fair enough.

Stop crying now, and piss of from now.

[bob]

OKAY, THAT'S ENOUGH!!! BossHog, go back and read the Posting Rules if you wish to remain in the Forum.

[RupertPupkin]

You can convert the deb file to an RPM using alien (dnf install alien), like this:

alien -r -c --fixperms screamingfrogseospider_15.2_all.deb

I just did that in Fedora 34, and it took a few minutes but it eventually produced the screamingfrogseospider-15.2-2.x86_64.rpm file. Unfortunately if you then try to install that RPM directly you'll get a message about its /usr/bin/ conflicting with the /usr/bin/ from Fedora's filesystem package. So instead, use rpm2cpio to unpack the contents of the RPM into a temporary directory, then move its bin and share subdirectories to a special location: /opt/ScreamingFrog:

mkdir -p /opt/ScreamingFrog
mkdir /tmp/frog
cp screamingfrogseospider-15.2-2.x86_64.rpm  /tmp/frog
cd  /tmp/frog
rpm2cpio screamingfrogseospider-15.2-2.x86_64.rpm | cpio -ivd
cd usr
mv bin share /opt/ScreamingFrog/
cd /opt/ScreamingFrog/bin
sed -i -e 's/usr/opt\/ScreamingFrog/g' screamingfrogseospider
chmod +x /opt/ScreamingFrog/share/screamingfrogseospider/jre/bin/*

You can now run Screaming Frog like this (as any user):

/opt/ScreamingFrog/bin/screamingfrogseospider

I just did all that in Fedora 34 and it worked:

[georg]

@RupertPupkin
This way it works for me as well. Great to be part of such a great community with people like you.
Thank you.

[jesscaper]

For some reason, none of these methods helped me. It's probably the third day I've been trying to install Screaming Frog Seo Spider on my fedora laptop. And I still can't understand why I can't install this tool on my computer. Perhaps the main problem is that I am still poorly versed in the fedora system. Up to this point, the only operating system I used was Windows, but at my new job I was asked to change the operating system to fedora. Initially, by profession I am a web designer in an SEO company similar to Press Pog, so I don't really understand much about operating systems like fedora or linux. I hope that it will not be so difficult for you to help me.

[georg]

Hey @jesscaper, worked for me including a few updates. What exactly did you do and what happened (not). If you need help, I can also offer you to contact me, I also work in the online marketing industry.

[Wahyumukti]

Hello I am using fedora 37 version

in the Downloads folder there is already a file screamingfrogseospider-18.1-2.x86_64.rpm
when I try to install it an error appears: directory
I tried the method you provided. But I'm still a beginner using fedora

and I tried to do what you wrote but I m
I'm currently on
and this is what i have done
Download/screamingfrogseospider-18.1/usr/bin

[wahyu@fedora bin]$ mkdir /opt/ScreamingFrog
[wahyu@fedora bin]$ mkdir/tmp/frog
mkdir: cannot create directory '/tmp/frog': File exists

can you tell me an easy way to install screaming frog. I'm still confused

[georg]

Hi, Screaming Frog has a rpm package since last year. Before that, there was only a deb package.
So now you would just:

cd Downloads
sudo dnf install screamingfrogseospider-18.1-2.x86_64.rpm

For future upgrades from one version to another follow:

cd Downloads
sudo rpm -e --noscripts screamingfrogseospider
sudo rpm -i screamingfrogseospider-18.1-x.x86_64.rpm

[Wahyumukti]

Hi, The installation is still failing.
and when I install it appears like that.