Alien

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 24 May 2013 06:56:31 -0400, John Aldrich wrote:

> I have an app that is available in three formats: Mac, Windows and .DEB. 
> I would like to install it on my Fedora box, but, obviously, Fedora 
> doesn't support .DEB files. So, I thought, why not use Alien to install 
> it? Except, there doesn't seem to be an Alien RPM for Fedora 18. The 
> most recent I could find was Fedora 16. Has Alien been abandoned? If 
> not, where can I find it?

First place to look at is Fedora package git. 
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/alien.git/

It's a rather new addition to the package collection.
The package review has been completed just recently:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695233

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