George Abraham [georgeabraham@asianetindia.com] wrote:
> Can apt-get and deb package management system be installed in a Red hat
> machine?. I am thinking about the possiblity of evolving a GNU/Debian
> system from a Red Hat system. Is it possible?. Pardon me if I am wrong
> and ignorant.
I have done it, it is a bitch.
As far as I know there is no automated way to do it. I carefully
removed rpm's and installed the equivalent .deb's one by one. It is a
treacherous process because if you're not careful you will accidentally
remove something that is critical (like bash, or init). Make sure you
have a boot disk handy that you can use to repair your filesystem if you
screw things up. And make sure you know how to install rpm's/deb's on
your main system after booting the rescue disk.
I only did this because I have so many custom things that I did not want
to lose, and having overlapping redhat/debian would be a waste of space.
I think the easiest way to start would be to just install the base
debian system over top of your old one, and then begin going through the
rpm database and removing things, and replacing them with the equivalent
debian packages. Due to rpm dependencies though, this is a horrible
nightmare.
Cheers,
Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics]
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to
be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge
gives. A popular government without popular information or the means
of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or
perhaps both."
- James Madison
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