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Authors(s): Kurt Seifried seifried@securityportal.com
Topic: Converting software package file formats
Keywords: Software
Tools exist to convert dpkg to rpm to tarball and so on, and can be very useful.
alien is probably the best utility around for converting files, it handles rpms, debs and tarballs very well. You can download it from: http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/.
slurp takes an interesting approach, it behaves somewhat like installwatch, but also has some of the features of alien. It monitors the system as you install a package, and creates an rpm file from this. You can get slurp from: http://students.vassar.edu/~jajohnst/slurp/.