If you download a RPM (Redhat Package Manager) file and wondering how to install it on a Debian Linux distribution like Ubuntu there is a simple solution for that.
As Debian distributions normally use DEB) package format for installing software there is an application called Alien which allows us to convert RPM files to DEB format. This is cool.
- Install Alien application
>sudo apt-get install alien
- Convert your RPM package to DEB
>sudo alien -k <application_name>.rpm
This will create a new DEB file in the same folder called