Alien (file converter)


Alien is a computer program that converts between different Linux package formats, created by Joey Hess and presently maintained by Kyle Barry.

Features

Alien supports conversion between Linux Standard Base, LSB-compliant.rpm packages,.deb, Stampede, Solaris and Slackware packages. It is also capable of automatically installing the generated packages, and can try to convert the installation scripts included in the archive as well. The latter feature should be used with caution since Linux distributions may vary significantly from one another, and using install scripts automatically converted from an Alien format may break the system.

Usage

A sample usage of Alien:
$ alien --to-rpm --scripts./mypkg.deb
This will convert mypkg.deb to mypkg.rpm with the preinst, postinst, prerm and postrm scripts from the Debian package into the RPM package.
Terminal commands for Alien:alien.rpm # Rpm to Deb
alien -k.tar.gz # Tar.gz to Deb
alien -d.tar.bz2 # Tar.bz2 to Deb
alien --to-deb ~/.tgz # Tgz to Deb
alien -r.deb

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