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$ alien-k ${filename}.tar.gz # Tar.gz to Deb $ alien-d ${filename}.tar.bz2 # Tar.bz2 to Deb $ alien--to-deb ~/ ${filename}.tgz # Tgz to Deb $ alien-r ${filename}.deb. It might require Super User Privileges to run the command. If it does then proceed with the commands below $ sudo alien ${filename}.rpm # Rpm to Deb $ sudo alien-k ${filename}.tar ...
In computing, tar is a computer software utility for collecting many files into one archive file, often referred to as a tarball, for distribution or backup purposes. The name is derived from "tape archive", as it was originally developed to write data to sequential I/O devices with no file system of their own, such as devices that use magnetic tape.
Its binary package format is a compressed tar archive (default file extension: .pkg.tar.zst) built using the makepkg utility (which comes bundled with pacman) and a specialized type of shell script called a PKGBUILD; PETget: Used by Puppy Linux; PISI: Stands for "Packages Installed Successfully as Intended".
pax is an archiving utility available for various operating systems and defined since 1995. [1] Rather than sort out the incompatible options that have crept up between tar and cpio, along with their implementations across various versions of Unix, the IEEE designed a new archive utility pax that could support various archive formats with useful options from both archivers.
The debian.tar file, which contains changes to the upstream source made by the package maintainer. This includes the entire debian directory. Any modified files outside it are aggregated into patch files inside the debian/patches directory, that are automatically applied before building.
Diagram showing an example file structure of a .deb file Frhed hex editor displaying the raw data of a Debian package. Prior to Debian 0.93, a package consisted of a file header and two concatenated gzip archives. [6] Since Debian 0.93, a deb package is implemented as an ar archive. [7] This archive contains three files in a specific order: [8] [9]
A single file container/archive that can be reconstructed even after total loss of file system structures. .tar application/x-tar Tape archive: Unix-like A common archive format used on Unix-like systems. Generally used in conjunction with compressors such as gzip, bzip2, compress or xz to create .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.Z or tar.xz files.
XZ Utils can compress and decompress the xz and lzma file formats. Since the LZMA format has been considered legacy, [2] XZ Utils by default compresses to xz.. In most cases, xz achieves higher compression rates than alternatives like zip, [3] gzip and bzip2.