How To Install alien on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install alien on Rocky Linux 8. 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 Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alien.

Install alien on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove alien

alien Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.