Top 15 alien pkg convert Alternative and Similar Softwares | Apr 2024

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.

1. Effing Package Management!

Effing Package Management! The packaging formats used by different distributions of Linux can be a pain point for software developers wishing to release their projects in an easily consumable way. Debian and Ubuntu rely on .deb packages, while Fedora and RedHat both use .rpm style packaging systems. These are incompatible and the tools......

2. RPM Builder

RPM Builder Easy gui to build rpm package from binary (developed and tested on Fedora 18). Attention: This software can run also on windows but works only for linux!......

3. Yum Extender

Yum Extender Yum Extender is a GUI for the YUM Package Manager used in Fedora, RHEL, Centos and others.The goal with the application is to give easy access to many of the powerful features in yum.......

4. TkPacman

TkPacman tkPacman is a lightweight graphical user interface for 'pacman', the package manager of Arch Linux.It is built with Tcl/Tk. As such it is compatible with all window managers and desktop environments.It only interacts with the package database via the CLI of 'pacman'. So, installing and removing packages with tkPacman or......

5. OneGet

OneGet OneGet is a unified interface to package management systems and aims to make Software Discovery, Installation and Inventory (SDII) work via a common set of cmdlets (and eventually a set of APIs). Regardless of the installation technology underneath, users can use these common cmdlets to install/uninstall packages, add/remove/query package repositories,......

6. aptitude

aptitude aptitude is a terminal-based frontend for Apt ( Advanced Package Tool ) with a number of useful features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible manner, dselect-like persistence of user actions, the ability to retrieve and display the Debian changelog of most packages, and extreme......

7. pacaur

pacaur pacaur - An AUR helper that minimizes user interaction.Pacaur is an Arch User Repository (AUR) helper aiming at speed and simplicity and is designed to minimize user prompt interaction. It uses an uncluttered interface and makes use of the full secured RPC interface to solve the dependency tree. It will......

8. win-get

win-get win-get is an installer and software repository for Microsoft Windows, like apt-get in Linux.......

9. PacmanXG

PacmanXG PacmanXG - is a GUI for pacman (package manager) , the package management system for Arch Linux .......

10. Muon

Muon Muon is a powerful graphical package manager built on the QApt framework. It boasts a powerful feature set in a usability-minded interface. Targeted for the intermediate to power user range.......

11. Discover

Discover discover - KDE and Plasma resources management GUISince Plasma 5 it is called "Discover", in its KDE4 version it was called "Muon Discover".......

12. Total Software Deployment

Total Software Deployment Total Software Deployment makes deploying packages on any number of computers a blast.Unlike the competition, this tool supports advanced concurrent deployment, allowing you to install multiple packages on multiple computers at the same time. You can specify how many computers and how many packages per computer can be installed at......

13. NuGet Server

NuGet Server NuGet Server is basically a wrapper of the NuGet.Server package, but installed through a wizard. NuGet Server is distributed with its own web server, why you don't need IIS installed.......

14. RuckZuck

RuckZuck RuckZuck is a free Software Package Manager for Windows, designed to keep the Software on your System(s) up to date even if the Software was not installed with RuckZuck.The Tool provides an easy graphical User-Interface to install or upgrade software with just a few clicks. It also provides a wizard......

15. pnpm

pnpm Fast, disk space efficient package manager......