> >Java , postgres and tomcat

> That's his stack...

What’s your point and when did I ever mention Java?

> It's not magic, just alien.

Dumping the contents of an RPM archive on random distros is never going to work except for the most simple of cases.

>Dumping the contents of an RPM archive on random distros is never going to work except for the most simple of cases.

That says allot about you packing hygiene, and you don't dump it..that you can do with tar alone. You convert it to a deb.

That says a lot about your packaging hygine. With alien, you're essentially dumping the contents of an RPM on hosts it wasn't meant for. It doen't matter that you converted it to deb format along the way, it's the same if you actually install it.

MyMy, you have no clue how packages and a package-manager works right?

Did you ever read a single line of alien source code? It extracts the metadata and files from a package, and re-archives it. That’s about it. It doesn’t handle package version differences, path differences, distro-specific rules, nothing. If your package has dependencies, forget about it because alien won’t retain dependency information it all. In other words, it only “works” for the most simple of cases.

I suggest you read the source code too, because otherwise you can cause real damage if you use it without understanding how it works.

https://sources.debian.org/src/alien/8.95/alien.pl/

Took me a minute to figure out where that came from, it was in the GGP comment.