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Re: RedHat support of Debian packages



On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:19:04AM -0700, jaretis@shaw.ca wrote:
| Our admin has a Redhat box set up and I would like to install 
| a suite of medical imaging tools that are composed of Debian 
| packages.  Does Redhat support Debian packages (.deb)? 

No.

| Out of curiosity, which distros support these packages?  Does
| Mandrake?  

RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, etc. are all based on 'rpm' (the package
format) and 'rpm' (the program to manage them).

If (and I mean *if*) the programs in those packages are
binary-compatible with the RH system, then your best bet is to use
'alien' to create an rpm package from the deb package.

-D

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