on Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:05:19PM +0530, 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.
It's not clear what you're asking:
- Can DEBs be used on RPM systems? Yes, with some pain to install
alien, though your dependencies may get wedged.
- Can RPM and APT coexist on the same system? If designed that way,
yes, but you want Connectiva. If you're trying to use a RH system
with Debian packages managed through APT, you're asking for trouble.
In general, the commandment is: Thou shalt not mix and match
package managers.
- If you're asking whether or not RH can serve as a Debian installer,
yes, this is one of the few tasks I've found that it does relatively
well. Osamu's already pointed you at one set of docs (specifically
a _remote_ chroot install). I've used this method successfully,
see:
http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/DebianChrootInstall
The difference between this method and the method described in
"3.7 Installing Debian GNU/GNU/Linux from a Unix/GNU/Linux System"
and my method is use of debootstrap (the Installation Manual method)
vs. a Potato base2_2.tar.gz image. Both methods get you to the same
end result.
Peace.
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