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Re: Installing .deb pkgs on other Linuxes?



George Bonser wrote:
> Alien can convert .deb packages to .rpm or you can install dpkg on the Red
> Hat system. Be careful if you do this because rpm and dpkg will be unaware
> of each other and one could clobber the other if you remove packages.

Hm, that's not accurate. Once a package is converted to your native package
format with alien, your native package manager is aware of it. That's the
point of converting the package.

(BTW, did you get to SVLUG, George?)

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