Package: alien (8.95.8)

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convert and install rpm and other packages

Alien allows you to convert LSB, Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages into Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg.

It can also generate packages of any of the other formats.

This is a tool only suitable for binary packages.

Tags: Software Development: Packaging, Implemented in: Perl, User Interface: interface::commandline, role::program, Scope: Utility, Application Suite: Debian, Purpose: use::converting, works-with-format::tar, Works with: works-with::archive, works-with::software:package

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