How To Install alien on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install alien on AlmaLinux 8.
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 AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alien.
Install alien on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install alien using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install alien
Install alien on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
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 AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the alien package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove alien
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install alien on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
