Alright most of you Linux savvy folks out there probably already know this, but I am gonna post it here as my reminder and maybe for those who don’t know. Nifty little program for converting rpm to dpkg is Alien. This is useful for OS’s that use dpkg’s such as Ubuntu, which utilizes the greatest command ever “apt-get” which references its repositories for whatever software you are searching for. Well Alien allows you to convert these rpm’s into the dpks’s to be able to utilizes this functionality with OS’s like Ubuntu. This also helps with those dependency issues from trying to cross over using rpm’s with the dpkg, which as I learned just doesn’t work no matter how hard you try. So a fiend of mine recommended to me “Alien” to convert the rpm’s into dpkg’s, making them friendly within Ubuntu’s environment. I give this program two thumbs up.

Link: http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/57020/Alien.html

Alien’s home page: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/