Marcel Hicking wrote: > Does the LSB _force_ Debian to use rpm? > If not, great! Both LSB certification AND dpkg/apt would be perfect. Again, please read the README.Debian in Debian's lsb package. For example: The "alien" package supports LSB packages on Debian. For example, to install an LSB package "lsb-mozilla-1.2-1_i386.rpm", type (as root): alien -i lsb-mozilla-1.2-1_i386.rpm Ideally, the package should be converted to a Debian package and then installed by dpkg. If this fails, there may be a problem with either the lsb package (most likely) or alien (less likely), and you should contact the vendor of the lsb package to resolve the problem. Installing packages in that way is completly LSB complient; .rpm != /usr/bin/rpm. Debian is working toward LSB certification, I myself have put 1.5 man months of effort into it already. Kibitzing on a mailing list is not likely to make it happen sooner, if you want to help I suggest you contact the current point man on this, Anthony Towns, find out what the current sticking point is and work to resolve it. The deviations listed in the abovementioned README.Debian and the bugs listed at http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/lsbtest/current/ would probably be a good starting point. -- see shy jo
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