[Gllug] installing dpkg and apt on a non debian system?

Ian Norton bredroll at atari.org
Sat Jun 22 21:13:14 UTC 2002


Generally what i was thinking, my mail concern was debian's dependancy
resolution, is it entirely script based or does it check to see if the
dependant packege is installed (ie target file exists) against the packages
list or where it is just there anyway?

On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 04:03:34PM +0100, David Damerell wrote:
> Actually, I once faked up a /var/lib/dpkg in order to install a few
> Debian packages on a Slackware system. It worked pretty well - and Red
> Hat's filesystem layout is a lot closer to Debian's than Slackware's
> was back then.
> 


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