1 I've created packages.vbs to get the packages from a Windows system. Output
2 basically looks like this:
6 Vendor: Adobe Systems Incorporated
7 Description: Acrobat.com
9 To do roughly the same for Linux (Well debain based Linux):
11 $ dpkg-query -W -f='Name: ${Package}\nVersion: ${Version}\nVendor: ${Vendor}\nDescription: ${Description}\n'
13 Which produces output like:
16 Version: 8.79ubuntu0.1
18 Description: convert and install rpm and other packages
19 Alien allows you to convert LSB, Red Hat, Stampede and Slackware Packages
20 into Debian packages, which can be installed with dpkg.
22 It can also generate packages of any of the other formats.
24 This is a tool only suitable for binary packages.
26 I don't have a Redhat system to see how to get similar output from there. Then
27 there's Sun, HP-UX, etc...