alien: A package converter1
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.
... part of T2, get it here
URL: https://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien.html
Author: Joey Hess <joeyh [at] debian [dot] org>
Maintainer: The T2 Project <t2 [at] t2-project [dot] org>
License: GPL
Status: Stable
Version: 8.95.7
Remark: Does cross compile (as setup and patched in T2).
Download: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/alien/ alien_8.95.7.tar.xz
T2 source: alien.cache
T2 source: alien.desc
Build time (on reference hardware): 1% (relative to binutils)2
Installed size (on reference hardware): 0.15 MB, 25 files
Dependencies (build time detected): 00-dirtree bash coreutils diffutils findutils gawk grep make perl sed tar xz
Installed files (on reference hardware):
[show]
1) This page was automatically generated from the T2 package source. Corrections, such as dead links, URL changes or typos need to be performed directly on that source.
2) Compatible with Linux From Scratch's "Standard Build Unit" (SBU).