In this article, we will learn how to install RPM packages on Ubuntu. RPM is a package manager that runs on RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Limited) and RHEL-based operating systems like OpenSUSE, Fedora etc. Ubuntu uses the APT package manager and .deb as the package installation format. You can use alien to just extract the files, without building the rpm; I would expect that to work without throwing errors: alien --scripts --generate You'll get 2 dirs: a dir, which it would it would use to build the .deb; a .orig dir that is the direct extraction from the .rpm As a first thing, we need to install rpmdevtools, plus the dependencies needed to build feh: $ sudo dnf install rpmdevtools gcc make imlib2-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel libXt-devel libXinerama-devel libexif-devel perl-Test-Command perl-Test-Harness libcurl-devel Once the packages are installed, we can generate our build environment. sudo apt-get install alien This will install all the required packages.Now you can start converting your .rpm files to .deb packages. Available Options for alien: Convert the package.rpm into a package.deb sudo alien -d package-name.rpm Convert the package.rpm into a package.deb, and install the generated package. alien -i package-name.rpm openSUSE Software rpm-build Tools and Scripts to create rpm packages If you want to build a rpm, you need this package. It provides rpmbuild and requires some packages that are usually required. There is no official package available for openSUSE Leap 15.4 Distributions openSUSE Tumbleweed official release Official 4.17.0 Expert Download Download rpm packages for Adélie, AlmaLinux, Alpine, ALT Linux, Amazon Linux, Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Mageia, NetBSD, OpenMandriva, openSUSE, PCLinuxOS The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a package management system that runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Fedora. RPM makes it easier for you to distribute, manage, and update software that you create for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Fedora. Many software vendors distribute their software via a conventional archive file (such as Alien can also convert packages to tgz, pkg and slp. Also read: Ubuntu Package Manager - All about dpkg and apt. Install RPM packages by converting .rpm to .deb. Step 1: Install "Alien". Step 2: Convert .rpm file to .deb. Step 3: Install the .deb package. Installing .rpm packages directly. Conclusion. This workflow triggered on every push , builds RPM and Source RPM using cello.spec and contents of that git ref that triggered that action. Contents are retrived through GitHub API [downloaded through archive link]. The generated RPMs or SRPMS can be uploaded as artifacts by using actions/upload-artifact. The outputs given by rpmbuild action apt-get update apt-get upgrade Before we start building anything, we'll need to install all of the dependencies which are required in order to build the .deb packages. We'll use the libfastlz and libfastlz-dev packages from the Bareos repositories: Using the Ubuntu Linux operating system, you can install the rpm package directly. Taking advantage of Alien, we can install RPM packages without having to convert them first. Enter the following command and complete this step: sudo alien -i packagename. rpm. Now that you have installed Ubuntu's RPM package directly, go ahead and install it. The spec file of a rpm package contains vital information about the package itself, such as its dependencies and the files it provides: it is this