How To Install alien on Fedora 34

alien is Converter between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and Slackware tgz file formats

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alien on Fedora 34.

What is alien

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.

We can use yum or dnf to install alien on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alien.

Install alien on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install alien using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install alien

Install alien on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install alien using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install alien

How To Uninstall alien on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the alien package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove alien

alien Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/alien
/usr/share/doc/alien
/usr/share/doc/alien/README
/usr/share/doc/alien/changelog
/usr/share/licenses/alien
/usr/share/licenses/alien/GPL
/usr/share/man/man1/alien.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Alien::Package.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Alien::Package::Deb.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Alien::Package::Lsb.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Alien::Package::Pkg.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Alien::Package::Rpm.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Alien::Package::Slp.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Alien::Package::Tgz.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Alien
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Alien/Package
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Alien/Package.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Alien/Package/Deb.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Alien/Package/Lsb.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Alien/Package/Pkg.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Alien/Package/Slp.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Alien/Package/Tgz.pm

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install alien on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.