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While Ubuntu is still my Linux flavor of choice, I like using different distributions as well, and OpenSUSE is my second favorite and I think it gives me the best KDE experience. However, I was trying to install the Heimdall suite and unfortunately only .deb packages were available. So after some quick research I found alien. A command-line tool that tries to convert deb packages along with dependencies to a fully functional rpm format. While its not guaranteed to work on all packages, it worked just fine on Heimdall and a coupe of other .deb packages I tested it on.

alien -r deb_package.deb --scripts

Cool stuff!