Re: Listing Partitions?

iforone wrote: 
Rick Moen wrote:

John-Paul Stewart <jpstewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Nope.  Knoppix and Kubuntu are both Debian derivatives and want .deb
packages.  RPM files are for Red Hat and derivatives (including Mandriva
and SuSE).  You'll want to use "kdesu", which is part of the base KDE
packages, so it must already be installed.  'kdesu kate /etc/fstab'
should do what you want.  (If I've been following the thread correctly!)


Thanks, John-Paul.  "kdesu" is clearly what I was trying to remember
when I said "ksudo".  In any event (see other post), we've now found the
Kubuntu FAQ for Pete, which should help him significantly.

Pete, a few words about why foreign packages are deprecated:  Packages
assembled for some other distribution often significantly depart from
the design and configuration of your own distribution:  They may put
files in the wrong place, the contents may not work properly, and you
may in some cases even damage your own installation.

Joey Hess's "alien" utility is capable of installing packages from one
distribution onto another with a different native package format -- and
in rare cases, you have little option but to do that.  However, you
should do it only as a last resort.



is this of any use to this discussion?;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apt-rpm


No.

One of the big differences between distros used to be that on Debian you could 'apt-get install package' which would install package.deb *and all of it's dependancies* whereas with Red Hat packages the user had to *manually* install any dependancies before installing package.rpm. The 'apt-rpm' package is one (of many) package installers that brings Debian-style automatic dependancy handling to RPM-based distros. It is *not* a way to install RPMs on Debian systems.
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