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Old 09-17-2008
Universal Repositories for All Linux Distros

Is it possible to use Other Distro's ( i.e Debian's or Ubuntu's ) repositories in Fedora?

If not then what should be done to make common repositories for all linux distros.

regards,
Arun Maurya
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Old 09-17-2008
fedora uses rpm packages, so it wont work with debian apckages
even further, mixing repositories is a very (and pardon my frecnh) stupid idea
each distro packages their own apps in diff ways. ven from fedora 8 to 9 there are many important differences that make what you want , well, a bad idea

dependecies are different also
i wanr you, if you install a rpm not ment specifly for your distro, you might damage your system beyond repair
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Old 09-18-2008
Debian / Ubuntu has limited support for installing RPM packages via the "alien" utility. It comes with pretty much the warnings broli already gave, but for a simple user-space utility, it works just fine. The most common problem is that different distros have different conventions for where a package should store library files, startup scripts, cron jobs, etc. If it's just a simple binary in /usr/bin with no package pre/post-install scripts or funky configuration files, you should be able to cope (but then you might as well recompile from source and make your own package for your own distro; there are tools for doing that automatically at least for Debian-based distros).
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