Re: Synaptic Package Manager vs. RPM
--- Jeremy Merritt <brookvegas@yahoo.com> wrote:
> What makes Synaptic different from RPM in "concept"?
The question you're really asking is:
"What makes .deb different from .rpm in concept."
... because Synaptic is just a GUI-frontend. The tools behind it
(dpkg, and friends) do all the real work.
> Can you manage any packages via RPM in Debian? I saw there was some
> kind of RPM utility but I never worked with it much.
There's "alien", but you shouldn't need it, and I wouldn't recommend
you use it on any critical packages you're going to need to install.
I'd be surprised if there wasn't a .deb file of an RPM already in
existance, for most packages.
-- Thomas Adam
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