Convert tgz to deb

Conversion of tgz file format to deb file format ^beta

Search for tgz to deb converter or software able to handle these file types.

Convert Gzip compressed TAR archive to Debian Linux package.

We have found one software suitable in our database for this conversion.

Both .tgz and .deb files are commonly found as program installation packages on Linux platform. A tgz to deb conversion is typically needed when user tries to transfer programs from one Linux distribution to another, for example from Ubuntu to Debian, and there is no installation package for the later in support format.

You can find tools such as the program alien, which are used for this job. It just should not be used for system critical packages.

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How to convert DEB to RPM and RPM to DEB or other packages - Converting Linux packages using alien program

Linux/Unix software - convert tgz to deb on Linux

alien

A linux packages conversion program

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
Convert from tgz file	Yes, alien supports tgz file conversion as a source file type.	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
to deb file	Yes, alien supports deb file conversion as a target file type.	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

The table with program actions contains information about what each program is capable of doing with their files. This may be a good pointer for further searches for certain file conversions and help you find the converter you are looking for if our search result is insufficient for you. However, it is far from perfect and may sometimes show results which are not really usable because of the nature of the software handles the files. So a conversion that appears as possible, just because of matched actions, may in fact not be possible.

Additional links: Open tgz file, Open deb file

TGZ

Files with tgz extension are Gzip compressed TAR archives which are commonly found on Unix-based operating system.

DEB

Files with deb extension can be mainly found as Debian distribution packages - compressed archives for Debian Linux operating system. Some archiving utilities, such as 7-zip, are also able to extract the content of DEB packages.

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