alien: alien (converting program) alien: alien: Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, alien: and slackware tgz file formats. If you want to use a package from alien: another distribution than the one you have installed on your system, alien: you can use alien to convert it to your preferred package format and alien: install it. alien: alien: Homepage: http://joeyh.name/code/alien/ alien: alien: