You can treat a .deb package as if it's .xz, because it is. extract it, and make the manual configuration changes. If you'd like, repackage the files into an rp

You can treat a .deb package as if it's .xz, because it is. extract it, and make the manual configuration changes. If you'd like, repackage the files into an rpm. Back in 2006, when I switched to Ubuntu, I used to be the one complaining that developers pretended Redhat = Linux. If I had to choose, I'd pick .deb over .rpm any day. FWIW, Gentoo offers Pinta in the portage tree: * media-gfx/pinta Available versions: 1.6-r2 **9999 Homepage: http://pinta-project.com Description: Simple Painting for Gtk so you could even download the source and rebuild on your own, should you need rpm's that desperately.