On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 16:11:58 -0500, Levelwave© wrote:

>> apt-get is what you are talking about and it runs on debian. I ran
>> various incarnations of redhat and marmaduke for the last 6 years
>> and finally switched to debian and there is _NO_ going back.
>
> Does it *only* run on Debian or will it install on SuSE 8.2?

Apt is a part of the Debian distribution, but will run on other systems.
The problem you have to contend with is that all package managers use
their *own* databases for managing dependancies and you really *can't* mix
them together. If your system's using RPM then you really should not use
dpkg (Debian package manager; apt-* are just tools to do the retrieval of
the .deb files, et. al.) to install other packages.