Anton Aylward composed on 2018-06-15 18:40 (UTC-0400):
There is also a link "Using APT on RPM-Based Systems" It should lead to http://www.linux-mag.com/id/1476/ but it doesn't :-( <quote> Now, apt doesn’t actually install packages; instead, it calls rpm to do the grunt work. </quote>
Written 13 years ago.
I suppose of Zypper were actually a script it would as well. But zypper uses "libzypp.so" as you might expect but also "librpm.so". So yes, under the hood, it uses the innards of RPM rather than the CLI-level RPM as a script would.
Go check # ldd $(which zypper) yourself.
As I understand it Synaptics has a version written in Python.
# zypper info zypper-aptitude ... Summary : aptitude compatibility with zypper Description: provides compatibility to Debian's aptitude command using zypper I've never installed it. I'm not sure what exactly I'd need any .deb packages on openSUSE for with the wealth of repos and package selections it offers. On Debian before Stretch, before the prompts inducing to use apt instead of apt-get, I probably used aptitude as much as I did apt-*, commonly to clean up packages held back, and far more often than I tried to use Synaptics. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org