alien (original) (raw)

Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and slackware tgz file formats. If you want to use a package from another distribution than the one you have installed on your system, you can use alien to convert it to your preferred package format and install it.

News

Kyle Barry has taken over maintenance of alien. His versions are available fromhttps://sourceforge.net/projects/alien-pkg-convert/

Update: Due to inactivity of that project, there's a new one herehttps://github.com/Project-OSS-Revival/alien

This rss feed won't be updated for any new releases of alien.

I am no longer maintaining alien. A new maintainer is wanted.

Downloading alien

Alien's website has moved tohttps://github.com/Project-OSS-Revival/alien

My old git repository for alien is still available atgit://git.joeyh.name/zzattic/alien

I've blogged a few times about alien.Alien use patternsexamines who I think is using alien now, andthis post gives some historical background.