>Alien (http://www.kitenet.net/programs/alien/) should do the
>trick. It claims to convert from RPM to Slackware .tgz, but
>I've never actually done it. I _have_ successfully converted
>from .deb to RPM using alien, so it at least occasionally works.
FYI, the layout of a .deb file is fairly straightforward.
Each .deb is actually just an "ar" archive file containing
some housekeeping info, the control file tarball and the
data file tarball. The control file tarball will (IIRC)
have dependency info, various setup and teardown scripts,
MD5 info, etc. The data file tarball will have the actual
items of interest.
So, when all else fails you can hand extract a .deb:
- cd to some scratch directory where you've placed your .deb file.
- Say "ar tv your.debFile" to get an idea of what's in it.
- Say "ar xv your.debFile" to extract the tarballs and such.
- Mess with the tarballs until you find bliss.
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