Re: sources.list to work with debians on a Fedora machine !

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:12:20PM -0700, NewDeb wrote:
> 
> I am reposting this message and drawing attention to the fact that I am
> trying to do the apt-get and dpkg magic on a fedora box !

Something you can do is install Debian to a subdirectory (chrot "jail")
in your system, using a program called "debootstrap".

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apds03.html.en (the
installation manual) explains how to use it to install Debian to a
specific subdirectory that is also on a different partition. But you can
skip all the partitioning bits and debootstrap to whatever subdirectory
you want.

Once this is done, if, say, you installed it into the subdirectory
/srv/chroot/debian, you can run (as root):

  chroot /srv/chroot/debian

Then it might help you to run the following to get a nicer promp and
all:

  . /etc/profile

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