Often you can find the installation packages for a program that interests us but in a different format from that used by our distribution...
with the program Alien you can convert the format of packets.
For example you can convert a package RPM used as Mandrakelinux distributions, SuSE Linux and Fedora in a package DEB for installation on a distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux.
It may sometimes be necessary to adjust some scripts in the package converted to operate properly.
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Alien package converter
