> I recently discovered a great tool in Slackware - rpm2tgz - as the name 
> suggests, converts an rpm to a good old tar.gz. I just love this tool.

Another similar tool is alien. It converts between .rpm, .deb, and .tgz
(and several others). This has saved me several times.

-Evan

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