How to Install and Uninstall alien Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 24,2025

You can also install and uninstall the alien on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "alien" package

This tutorial shows how to install alien on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                alien
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "alien" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall alien on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the alien package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: alien
Version: 8.95.6
Installed-Size: 163
Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Architecture: all
Depends: debhelper (>= 10), perl:any, rpm, dpkg-dev, make, cpio, rpm2cpio
Suggests: patch, bzip2, lintian, lzma
Description: convert and install rpm and other packages
Description-md5: 250884c1c7113f08b8c335ac3cf22206
Homepage: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/
Tag: devel::packaging, implemented-in::perl, interface::commandline,
role::program, scope::utility, suite::debian, use::converting,
works-with-format::tar, works-with::archive,
works-with::software:package
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/alien/alien_8.95.6_all.deb
Size: 78028
MD5sum: 1b8c5dc2da54213d1349d33b02d52abf
SHA256: 03d23023e3efc4c5bcd29fc92151b6b18788e497877bfd97f11193fca9c63b61