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using packages install in another distro

Asked by marcus aurelius

i've set up /opt and /home in their own partitions to be shared and have installed another distro.
how would i import the packages that i installed in the other distro into ubuntu?

thanks.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What apps, most of them will be available in both system (e.g. Firefox etc)

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#2

i'm trying to hook into the apps i installed in the other distro that is sharing the /opt partition without having to reinstall in ubuntu.

by the way, i did reinstall, but ubuntu said the app is already installed, so i cancelled the operation. if i reinstalled, i believe it would mess up the app on the other distro.

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François Tissandier (baloo) said : 		#3

Unless the other system is also Ubuntu, I don't think you can "share" applications like that. Some of them may rely on libraries which are not installed on both system. So I think that sharing /home is maybe possible (but be careful also as two systems will use it, it could lead to some problems), but not applications.

Why do you need to share them between systems ? Just to save time ?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

as long as you can satisfy the deps in the Ubuntu distro then you should be able to launch the app.

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#5

the are standard programs (openoffice and acrobat reader). i'm sure they both use the same libraries.

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Torsten Spindler (tspindler) said : 		#6

You might try to add the path names for the packages installed in /opt to your path in your bashrc (assuming you use bash as shell).

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