RPM files

[David Fox]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Harold Hartley
<harold_hartley at verizon.net> wrote:
> I have gotten so use to downloading and installing APT files.
> My question is can the same software we use in ubuntu to download which,
> can I download and install a RPM file into ubuntu with synaptic app.

You can install a program called alien from the repositories that can
be used to take rpm based files and convert them to deb based files
that are installable on Ubuntu, but I would only do that as a last
resort, if and only if the package is nowhere to be found in a
debianized form.

> Harold