[CoLoCo] RPM on ubuntu

[Kevin Fries]

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 07:04 -0700, Kenneth D Weinert wrote:
> This is not the normal "install an RPM file on ubuntu", but the need for
> an rpm command on ubuntu.

A quick check indicates that not only is RPM in the repos, so is yum:

$ apt-cache search rpm | grep rpm
kdeadmin-kfile-plugins - KDE file metainfo plugins for deb and rpm files
librpm-dev - RPM shared library, development kit
librpm4 - RPM shared library
rpm - Red Hat package manager
apt-rpm-repository - tools to create an APT RPM repository
edos-rpmcheck - Checks whether dependencies of RPM packages can be satisfied
libapt-rpm-pkg-dev - development files for APT for RPM library
libapt-rpm-pkg-libc6.6-6-2 - APT for RPM library
lsb-rpm - Red Hat package manager for LSB package building
mach - make a chroot of a rpm-based distribution
mock - Build rpm packages inside a chroot
python-rpm - Python bindings for RPM
rpm2html - Generate HTML index from directories of RPMs
smartpm - An alternative package manager that works with dpkg/rpm
smartpm-core - An alternative package manager that works with dpkg/rpm
yum - Advanced front-end for rpm
rpmstrap - bootstrap a basic RPM-based system


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Kevin Fries
Senior Linux Engineer
Computer and Communications Technology, Inc
A Division of Japan Communications Inc.