Title: Converting software package file formats

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Authors(s): Kurt Seifried seifried@securityportal.com
Topic: Converting software package file formats
Keywords: Software

Summary:

Tools exist to convert dpkg to rpm to tarball and so on, and can be very useful.

More information:

alien

alien is probably the best utility around for converting files, it handles rpm’s, deb’s and tarballs very well. You can download it from: http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/.

slurp

slurp takes an interesting approach, it behaves somewhat like installwatch, but also has some of the features of alien. It monitors the system as you install a package, and creates an rpm file from this. You can get slurp from: http://students.vassar.edu/~jajohnst/slurp/.