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Peepsalot
November 22nd, 2006, 12:38 AM
As you may know, there is an application called alien which facilitates the install of rpms onto a Debian(or Ubuntu if you will) based system.

In addition to my 2 Ubuntu boxes, I recently installed Fedora Core 5 on a laptop, and I am curious if there is something that works in the other direction. Allowing the install of .debs in a .rpm world.

hod139
November 22nd, 2006, 12:46 AM
alien can convert between many package types, so it can go from a deb to an rpm.

Peepsalot
November 22nd, 2006, 12:59 AM
Ah, I should have known. Thank you.