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.

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no longer maintaining alien

I am no longer maintaining alien. A new maintainer is wanted.

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Downloading alien

Alien's website has moved to https://sourceforge.net/projects/alien-pkg-convert/

My old git repository for alien is still available at git://git.joeyh.name/zzattic/alien


I've blogged a few times about alien. Alien use patterns examines who I think is using alien now, and this post gives some historical background.