On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:35:20 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> On a related note, and I'm sure I could track this down with enough
> googling, but I only spent about 10 minutes on it and didn't find
> anything that looked likely:  Can "apt" use "yum" repositories? 
> Specifically, if there's a repository with software for "open suse", can
> Ubuntu manage packages from that easily?  How about RPM repositories? 
> Most of the third-party repositories I see offer those two.

I don't think Apt can use RPM repos (which the openSUSE repos would be).  
You can convert packages using alien, which I have done with some 
success, though library names might be different (they were for a video 
converter I was pointed at) so it takes a little work to get the package 
working.

Jim

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