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Contents 1 alien 2 installation 3 basic usage 4 see also

alien

alien lets you install rpms on Debian-based Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and Linuxmint.

alien

installation

root@roosevelt:~# apt-get -y install alien

basic usage

root@roosevelt:/home/ggeller/Downloads# alien --scripts VMware-server-1.0.5-80187.i386.rpm

see VMware/Linuxmint install

see also

apt-get
yum
dpkg
rpm
VMware/Linuxmint-4_install