Hi Michael,
Where is 'alien-8.78-1.2.noarch' from? openSUSE:Factory:Contrib has alien-8.78-1.18.noarch and requires perl = 5.10.1.
It seems that I solved my problem. First I ignored the error and forced installation of alien. After that I realized that I had a mix of factory and 11.2 packages and corrected this and did a zypper dup. alien now works But to answer your question: This information I got from yast: │Name │ │Version │Repository │Size │Architecture i│alien │ x │8.78-1.2│os 11.2 contrib│ 238.0 KiB│noarch and this is what zypper shows: cassiopeia:~ # zypper if alien Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Information for package alien: Repository: @System Name: alien Version: 8.78-1.2 Arch: noarch Vendor: obs://build.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Factory Installed: Yes Status: up-to-date Installed Size: 238.0 KiB Summary: A Perl Script to Convert Packages Description: Experimental Perl script to convert software packages. The following formats are supported: deb (Debian), rpm (Red Hat), and tgz (Slackware). cassiopeia:~ # Axel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org