How To Install alien on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install alien
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alien.
Install alien on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install alien
using yum
by running the following command:
Install alien on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install alien
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall alien on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the alien
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install alien
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.