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[News] Deb of RPM Don't Matter Much Anymore

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Alien-GUI: an useful software tool to grafically convert deb and tar packages
to RPM 

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| Today, in our Linux Page (in Spanish) we added a brief news about Alien-GUI 
| which is an interesting software developed to grafically (and automatically) 
| convert tar, deb in RPM.   
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http://galigio.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/alien-gui-an-useful-software-tool-to-grafically-convert-deb-and-tar-packages-to-rpm/


Related:

Install .rpm Files in Debian and Ubuntu

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| Some time you might find some applications are having only .rpm files but
| you want a .deb package for your debian,Ubuntu and other debian derived
| ditributions.If you can?t find .deb debian package in any of the
| debian,ubuntu repositories or elsewhere, you can use the alien
| package converter  to install the .rpm file.
| 
| 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
| 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.
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http://www.debianadmin.com/install-rpm-files-in-debian-and-ubuntu.html


Thoughts on Package Management

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| Distros have changed. In the past, they were made up of a small, tightly knit 
| group collaborators working toward a common goal. With distributions today we 
| now have an informal, large group of collaborators...some of which may not 
| even be aware of the main goal of the distro. That informal collaborator may 
| just want package foo version 2.2 included in his/her distribution so that 
| he/she can use it on their desktop. How does that informal collaborator 
| become empowered?      
| 
| [...]
| 
| Imagine KDE and Gnome desktop distro developers working side by side and 
| sharing fixes/patches and packages of common shared software...remember, with 
| conary repositories, all changes can be seen by both development trees (KDE 
| and Gnome) so the changes are automatic when put in place. Instead of having 
| to push that fix to both branches of software, conary allows for fixes to be 
| automatic between the two desktop development branches.     
| 
| Work smarter, not harder. Conary can be an incredible tool that can empower 
| users to contribute and merge different development trees seemlessly between 
| various versions of software.  
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http://linux-blog.org/index.php?/archives/238-Thoughts-on-Package-Management.html
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