Sean Feeney
Architect of the digital age

Convert deb packages to rpm packages in Fedora

28 December 2010

  1. Download alien at http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/alien
  2. su root
  3. Extract package and cd to the directory.
perl Makefile.PL; make; make install yum groupinstall "Development Tools" yum install rpmdevtools
  1. su back to your normal user
cd ~; rpmdev-setuptree
  1. To convert (must be root):
alien --to-rpm something.deb

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