On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 22:48, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include <hallo.h> > * Zenaan Harkness [Sat, Feb 07 2004, 04:20:47AM]: > > > > sys-admins on Linux systems, and they feel much better when software is > > > in > > > .rpm, because that's what they know. > > > > Don't RPM distros now have apt/ alien to install? (ie. so they can > > install .deb archives) ??? > > APT does not install anything. It manages to retrieve the correct > packages and then lets the actual package manager do the work. It is > dpkg for Debian systems and rpm for RPM-based ones.
My ultimate question is (since it's obviously not obvious) - can a .deb Debian package be installed on a .rpm based distribution?
