<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1cdf6491-3a3b-4226-b6b5-ba792e9ec20c/1CB428E9-0255-45DA-82EF-09C61F233D78/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/06/convert-between-rpm-deb-and-tgz.html" href="http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/06/convert-between-rpm-deb-and-tgz.html" style="font-size: 11px;">linuxhelp.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/06/convert-between-rpm-deb-and-tgz.html"><DIV class="post"> <A name="111937446634597036"></A> <H3 class="post-title"> <A href="http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/06/convert-between-rpm-deb-and-tgz.html" set="yes">Convert between RPM, Deb and tgz package formats</A> </H3> <DIV class="post-header-line-1"></DIV> <DIV class="post-body"> <DIV class="KonaBody"> <P></P><DIV><SPAN>I</SPAN>f you are using a debian (based) <A href="#" class="kLink" id="KonaLink0"><FONT color="#449d34"><SPAN class="kLink">linux </SPAN><SPAN class="kLink">distribution</SPAN></FONT></A> like Ubuntu, then you will not be able to use the rpm command to install software in RPM format because Debian uses its own package management called dpkg. But there is an experimental software called <A target="_blank" href="http://www.kitenet.net/programs/alien/">Alien</A>, that converts between the <SPAN>rpm</SPAN>, Debian <SPAN>deb</SPAN>,stampede <SPAN>slp</SPAN>, and slackware <SPAN>tgz</SPAN> file formats.<BR /></DIV> <DIV>For example, if I want to install Inkscape which is in a binary RPM format in Ubuntu (or any <A href="#" class="kLink" id="KonaLink1"><FONT color="#449d34"><SPAN class="kLink">debian</SPAN></FONT></A> distro), I use the following command:<BR /></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE><CODE># <SPAN>alien -i inkscape-2.1.3.rpm</SPAN></CODE></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV>The above command will unpack the rpm package into a directory, create a deb package and then install it on your system. Ofcourse, you can uninstall the package at a later date by using the relevent <SPAN>dpkg</SPAN> command.<BR /></DIV> </DIV> <DIV></DIV> </DIV> <DIV class="post-footer"> <P class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><SPAN class="post-author"> Posted by Ravi </SPAN> <SPAN class="post-timestamp"> </SPAN> <SPAN class="post-comment-link"> </SPAN> <SPAN class="post-icons"> <SPAN class="item-control blog-admin pid-822535032"> <A title="Edit Post" href="http://www2.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7693232&postID=111937446634597036"> <SPAN class="quick-edit-icon"> </SPAN> </A> </SPAN> </SPAN> </p> <P class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"><SPAN class="post-labels"> </SPAN> </p> <P class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"></p> </DIV> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1CB428E9-0255-45DA-82EF-09C61F233D78/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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