09-18-2008
Debian / Ubuntu has limited support for installing RPM packages via the "alien" utility. It comes with pretty much the warnings broli already gave, but for a simple user-space utility, it works just fine. The most common problem is that different distros have different conventions for where a package should store library files, startup scripts, cron jobs, etc. If it's just a simple binary in /usr/bin with no package pre/post-install scripts or funky configuration files, you should be able to cope (but then you might as well recompile from source and make your own package for your own distro; there are tools for doing that automatically at least for Debian-based distros).
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
dh_installmenu
DH_INSTALLMENU(1) Debhelper DH_INSTALLMENU(1)
NAME
dh_installmenu - install Debian menu files into package build directories
SYNOPSIS
dh_installmenu [debhelperoptions] [-n]
DESCRIPTION
dh_installmenu is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files used by the Debian menu package into package build
directories.
It also automatically generates the postinst and postrm commands needed to interface with the Debian menu package. These commands are
inserted into the maintainer scripts by dh_installdeb(1).
FILES
debian/package.menu
Debian menu files, installed into usr/share/menu/package in the package build directory. See menufile(5) for its format.
debian/package.menu-method
Debian menu method files, installed into etc/menu-methods/package in the package build directory.
OPTIONS
-n, --noscripts
Do not modify postinst/postrm scripts.
SEE ALSO
debhelper(7) update-menus(1) menufile(5)
This program is a part of debhelper.
AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
9.20120909 2011-09-12 DH_INSTALLMENU(1)