Alien

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 anotherdistribution than the one you have installed on your system, you can usealien to convert it to your preferred package format and install it.

Last month I have a problem on how to handle RPM files in Kubuntu. since os ko ay Kubuntu and doesn’t support rpm files so akala ko wala na akong pagasa. And hindi ko naman naisip na meron palang Alien. And now ko lang ulit naalala kung meron bang parang crossover or something like Wine na you can execute Windows Executables in Linux Platforms. Kaya nag surf ako and i got Alien.

Make sure na naka enable ang universe repository.

sudo apt-get install alien

and para naman sa crossover move ng alien

alien -k filename.rpm