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Re: C library for numerical analysis and math



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?



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