How to Install and Uninstall alien Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: May 10,2024

1. Install "alien" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install alien on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                alien
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the alien package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: alien
Architecture: all
Version: 8.95.4
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 163
Depends: debhelper (>= 10), perl:any, rpm (>= 2.4.4-2), dpkg-dev, make, cpio, rpm2cpio
Suggests: patch, bzip2, lintian, lzma
Filename: pool/universe/a/alien/alien_8.95.4_all.deb
Size: 49700
MD5sum: 3c4d6f22d586bc7375c34ae407540096
SHA1: c7e5859c3e183b2818b84f0e33d8ee34b3a63e78
SHA256: 4e89c7e7cde13408d0a230310e708ad6acf882facbf2f191b00d4b1333f1f150
SHA512: 60712f964c3937b2377dd5da8859e9b3cc84ffdb4007e3e4a3a7c793956a613a92315895327345f214b9ce9b90ed62886af766cba1099fa20ef3a951b46f5ff1
Homepage: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/
Description-en: convert and install rpm and other packages
Alien allows you to convert LSB, Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages
into Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg.
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It can also generate packages of any of the other formats.
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This is a tool only suitable for binary packages.
Description-md5: 250884c1c7113f08b8c335ac3cf22206