Alien (file converter)

Alien supports conversion between Linux Standard Base (LSB), LSB-compliant .rpm packages,[2] .deb, Stampede (.slp), Solaris (.pkg) and Slackware (.tgz, .txz, .tbz, .tlz)[3] packages. It is also capable of automatically installing the generated packages, and can try to convert the installation scripts included in the archive as well. The latter feature should be used with caution since Linux distributions may vary significantly from one another, and using install scripts automatically converted from an Alien format may break the system.

A sample usage of Alien:

$ alien --to-rpm --scripts ./mypkg.deb

This will convert mypkg.deb to mypkg.rpm with the preinst, postinst, prerm and postrm scripts from the Debian package (deb) into the RPM package.

Terminal commands for Alien:
alien (filename).rpm # Rpm to Deb

alien -k (filename).tar.gz # Tar.gz to Deb

alien -d (filename).tar.bz2 # Tar.bz2 to Deb

alien --to-deb ~/(filename).tgz # Tgz to Deb

alien -r (filename).deb

It might require Super User Privileges to run the command. If it does then proceed with the commands below
sudo alien (filename).rpm # Rpm to Deb

sudo alien -k (filename).tar.gz # Tar.gz to Deb

sudo alien -d (filename).tar.bz2 # Tar.bz2 to Deb

sudo alien --to-deb ~/(filename).tgz # Tgz to Deb

sudo alien -r (filename).deb

• checkinstall, for the source tarball (i.e. Gentoo) to .deb (Debian).

• Package management system

• "Official website". sourceforge.io. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
• "Previous page for Alien by Joey Hess". joeyh.name. 2016-10-16. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
• "alien(1)". manpages.debian.org. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
• "alien(1)". manpages.ubuntu.com. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
• "fakeroot(1)". manpages.debian.org. Retrieved 2018-04-23. an alien helper utility