Alien is a computer program that converts between different Linux package formats, created by Joey Hess and presently maintained by Kyle Barry.

[1] Alien supports conversion between Linux Standard Base (LSB), LSB-compliant .rpm packages,[2] .deb, Stampede (.slp), Solaris (.pkg) and Slackware (.tgz, .txz, .tbz, .tlz)[3] packages.

Automatic installation should be used with caution since Linux distributions may vary significantly from one another, and using install scripts automatically converted from an Alien format may break the system.

A sample usage of Alien: $ alien --to-rpm --scripts ./mypkg.deb This will convert mypkg.deb to mypkg.rpm with the preinst, postinst, prerm and postrm scripts from the Debian package (deb) into the RPM package.

If it does then proceed with the commands below $ sudo alien ${filename}.rpm # Rpm to Deb