Step 1- Installing the Alienġ) Alien is a tool supporting conversions between Red Hat rpm, Debian deb, and Stampede slp, as well as Slackware tgz, and the Solaris pkg file formats. We will also address some of the FAQs related to the RPM installation. In this tutorial, you will install RPM packages on Ubuntu. There is a tool known as alien that allows the user to install an RPM file on Ubuntu and convert an RPM package file into the Debian package file. Even, for its derivatives, like the CentOS. The RPM is a package format useful for Red Hat. Few packages are not available in the standard Ubuntu repositories but they get easily installed by enabling appropriate sources.īasically, when any software vendor does not provide a repository then they will have a download page from where the user can download it and can install the deb package or download and compile software from the sources.Īlthough, few softwares are distributable only as an RPM package. These are useful for all Debian-based distributions, including Ubuntu. It gets installed from the Ubuntu Software Center or by using the apt command-line utility. The Ubuntu repositories mainly have thousands of deb packages. Let’s briefly understand - What is an RPM package?

Before we begin talking about how to install RPM packages on Ubuntu.

Yum install rpm file