Linux – Install YAST package under Ubuntu

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How to install a YAST metapackage (.ymp) package under Ubuntu?
Are there any tools for converting a .ymp to a .deb or to an installation script?

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What you want is alien.

See: http://www.howtoforge.com/converting_rpm_to_deb_with_alien and http://embraceubuntu.com/2005/09/23/installing-using-an-rpm-file/

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Ubuntu/Debian: Show list of available versions of a specific package

Try with

apt-cache madison myPackage

Quote from man page:

It displays available versions of a package in a tabular format.

Ubuntu – How to see the changelog for a debian/ubuntu deb package

Alternatively if the deb is also in the repository and you want to know older versions changelog, you can use apt-get changelog package to read all the changelog. For example for openssl:

apt-get changelog libssl1.0.0

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Ubuntu – How to see the changelog for a debian/ubuntu deb package

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