In Ubuntu / Debian / Ultimate Edition land; from the terminal (sudo unnecessary from Debian):
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sudo apt-get install alien
OOPS:
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theemahn@SledgeHammer:~$ sudo apt-get install alien
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
alien is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
alien is built into Ultimate Edition Funny how many tools that are under the hood in Ultimate Edition go unnoticed. O.K. This is a Fedora thread right?
In Fedora from the terminal:
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yum install alien
O.K. From here forward commands should be the same, we are learning alien. Since a rpm (redhat package manager) does not exist of Ultimate Player I went to our website not that I had to and pulled it down as a deb and thus we begin:
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theemahn@SledgeHammer:~/Downloads$ sudo alien -r ultimate-player_0.7.3_lucid_amd64.deb
[sudo] password for theemahn:
tar: Record size = 16 blocks
ultimate-player-0.7.3-2.x86_64.rpm generated
theemahn@SledgeHammer:~/Downloads$
The same can be done with a rpm to make it into a deb:
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theemahn@SledgeHammer:~/Downloads$ alien --help
Usage: alien [options] file [...]
file [...] Package file or files to convert.
-d, --to-deb Generate a Debian deb package (default).
Enables these options:
--patch=<patch> Specify patch file to use instead of automatically
looking for patch in /var/lib/alien.
--nopatch Do not use patches.
--anypatch Use even old version os patches.
-s, --single Like --generate, but do not create .orig
directory.
--fixperms Munge/fix permissions and owners.
--test Test generated packages with lintian.
-r, --to-rpm Generate a Red Hat rpm package.
--to-slp Generate a Stampede slp package.
-l, --to-lsb Generate a LSB package.
-t, --to-tgz Generate a Slackware tgz package.
Enables these options:
--description=<desc> Specify package description.
--version=<version> Specify package version.
-p, --to-pkg Generate a Solaris pkg package.
-i, --install Install generated package.
-g, --generate Generate build tree, but do not build package.
-c, --scripts Include scripts in package.
-v, --verbose Display each command alien runs.
--veryverbose Be verbose, and also display output of run commands.
-k, --keep-version Do not change version of generated package.
--bump=number Increment package version by this number.
-h, --help Display this help message.
-V, --version Display alien's version number.
theemahn@SledgeHammer:~/Downloads$
Nice tool most are oblivious to I hope I helped someone out.
TheeMahn