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Package: alien

Description: 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.
Homepage: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/
copyright | changelog | README

Manual pages:

alien(1p) Alien::Package(3pm) Alien::Package::Deb(3pm)
Alien::Package::Lsb(3pm) Alien::Package::Pkg(3pm) Alien::Package::Rpm(3pm)
Alien::Package::Slp(3pm) Alien::Package::Tgz(3pm)

Other documents:

/usr/share/doc/alien

Manual page search:

Alien::Package(3pm) Alien::Package::Deb(3pm) Alien::Package::Lsb(3pm)
Alien::Package::Pkg(3pm) Alien::Package::Rpm(3pm) Alien::Package::Slp(3pm)
Alien::Package::Tgz(3pm) alien(1p)

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