dpkg-deb: error: control directory has bad permissions

I'm running an Ubuntu 12.04 VM and trying to convert an rpm file to a deb file. When I run sudo alien --to-deb --scripts oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm I get this error

dpkg-deb: error: control directory has bad permissions 777 (must be
> >=0755 and <=0775)

I tried sudo chmod 0755 oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm and sudo chmod -R 0755 on the directory containing the file and still get the error. What is the control directory? **Update** Sorry for not realizing this before I am getting this error before the control directory error. dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXm.so.3 has an unexpected SONAME (libXm.so.4) dpkg-shlibdeps: error: no dependency information found for /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXm.so.3 I ran sudo apt-file search libXm.so.3 and it returned libmotif4: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXm.so.3 so I downloaded libmotif4 and still got the error and then downloaded libmotif3 as well and got the error. I ran sudo alien -g my.rpm and that generated oracle-xe-11.2.0 and oracle-xe-11.2.0.orig directories. I ran sudo chmod -R 0755 oracle-xe-11.2.0 and then ran debian/rules binary to generate the errors described above.