tlug: Package converter

["Andrew S. Howell" <andy@example.com>]

Just came across this, and thought it might be useful to the list. I
haven't tried it yet.

http://www.kitenet.net/programs/alien/

Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, 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.

Andy
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