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alien: alien
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alien: Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and
alien: slackware tgz file formats.
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alien: NOTE: this slackware package doesn't convert to ".deb", in order to make
alien:       it possible you have to install dpkg, dpkg-dev and deb-helper (try
alien:       converting these packages using alien!). See documentation and web
alien:       site above mentioned for further information. Michelino Chionchio
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