Re: [LI] KDE install on Deb.. How about this

[Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <thaths@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kumar Cheetan A2 5 WIPRO consultant proclaimed:
> Just a wild thought, why can't one install RedHat packet maneger on debian, OR
> debian packet maneger on RH. 

You can.  In fact, the rpm package management software is available on
Debian: http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/admin/rpm.html

> Ofcourse this should install all the package
> database file and such stuff on the respective systems. Then use rpm on a debian
> system to install rpms and dpkg on RH system. 

Why?  When most of the same software is available pre-paclaged in both the
.rpm and .deb formats?

> Yea first in the series of
> thoughts that come would be dependence, if you are sure you can force the
> installation. Care should be taken to see the library versions ofcourse.. Then
> next step is to see how to have inter-operable package data-base. This should be
> a tuff but a challangeing job. Any thoughts on this..

Another point: Debian's start-up rc scripts are under /etc/init.d/ and RH's
under /etc/rc.d/init.d/

> Note: This doesnot mean a deb to rpm converter, on debian box I should be able
> to run
> bash$ rpm -Uvvh kde-base.xx-i386.rpm
> And install kde-base :-)

You *can* get the KDE software in deb format already (off of KDE's site).

Thaths
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