Welcome to Fedora! If you’ve just come from a Debian-based system like Ubuntu, you might have noticed that Fedora handles software a bit differently. Fedora uses , while Ubuntu uses DEB packages .
Now he had a native RPM file. This was familiar territory. He used yum again to install his newly created package, which would handle any dependencies automatically (or so he hoped). install deb package on fedora 17 user new
Once alien is installed, conversion is straightforward: Welcome to Fedora
Now armed with the alien tool, Alex navigated to his Downloads folder where the .deb file sat innocently. Now he had a native RPM file
But then, reality set in. Alex needed a specific piece of software—a niche video converter—that wasn't available in the Fedora repositories. He found the software’s website easily enough, but his heart sank when he saw the download options.