Installing RPM packaged on Ubuntu may lead to package dependency conflicts. Not all RPM packages can be installed on Ubuntu. Whenever possible, you should prefer installing software from the Ubuntu repositories. This is not the recommended way to install software packages in Ubuntu.
Luckily, there is a tool called alien that allows us to install an RPM file on Ubuntu or to convert an RPM package file into a Debian package file. RPM is a package format used by Red Hat and its derivatives such as CentOS. Generally, when the software vendor does not provide a repository, they will have a download page from where you can download and install the deb package or download and compile the software from sources.Īlthough not so often, some software may be distributed only as an RPM package.
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