On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 14:28, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 01:46:46PM +0200, Helgi ?rn wrote: > > I've never before installad a package with RPM in Debian, are there some > > weird oddities combined with that? > > Never do that. Use alien if you can't find a non-RPM version of the > package. > Please explain why RPM shouldn't be used when it's there? The Linux (rpm)package is not dist-specific AFAIK and RPM is installed in Woody so why not? I've never before seen or used RPM in Debian so I thought it was interesting to give it a try, of course I used *rpm -i --test <package>* just to se the outcome without actually installing.
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