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Please read alien's man page for general documentation.
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Getting alien:
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The newest versions of alien are available at the alien home page; drop by
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http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/
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On metalab and its mirrors, alien is located in the
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pub/Linux/utils/scripts/ directory.
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You can also get rpm or deb packages of alien:
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deb: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/unstable/binary-all/admin/alien_*.deb
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rpm: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/noarch/alien-*.rpm
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Other things you'll need:
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To use alien, you will need several other programs. Alien is a perl
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program, and requires perl version 5.004 or greater. If you use slackware,
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make sure you get perl 5.004, the perl 5.003 in slackware does not work
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with alien!
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To convert packages to or from rpms, you need the Red Hat Package Manager;
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get it from Red Hat's ftp site.
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If you want to convert packages into debian packages, you will need the
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dpkg, dpkg-dev, and debhelper packages, which are available on the Debian
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ftp site.
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To convert to/from stampede packages, you will need bzip2, get it from
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/index.html
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Attention, Slackware, Red Hat, and Stampede users: Bruce S. Babcock
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<babcock@math.psu.edu> has put together an "alien-extra"
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package of all the extra files you need to use alien on
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a Red Hat or Slackware system. (Debian systems automatically have the
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required files.)
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The Slackware version is at
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ftp://ykbsb2.yk.psu.edu/pub/alien/alien-extra.tgz
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The RedHat version is at
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ftp://ykbsb2.yk.psu.edu/pub/alien/alien-extra.rpm
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The Stampede version is at
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ftp://ykbsb2.yk.psu.edu/pub/alien/alien-extra.slp
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Programs that use alien:
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I know of one program that acts as a frontend to alien - kpackviewer is a
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package viewer that can convert between package formats by using alien. Its
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homepage is at http://www.momentus.com.br/users/hook/kpackviewer.html
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Please report any bugs in alien to the author:
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2000-04-21 22:49:11 +00:00
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Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
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