apt-rpm is a version of the Advanced Packaging Tool modified to work with the RPM Package Manager. It was originally ported to RPM by Alfredo Kojima and then further developed and improved by Gustavo Niemeyer, both working for the Conectiva Linux distribution at the time.

In March 2005 the maintainer of the program, Gustavo Niemeyer, announced that he will not continue the developing of the program, but that he will instead focus on Smart Package Manager which was planned as a successor over apt-rpm.

In March 2006 development was picked up again by Panu Matilainen from Red Hat at a new home, introducing basic multilib functionality and support for common repository metadata.

apt-rpm support in various distributions

• ALTLinux Sisyphus: APT is the main, officially supported way to upgrade packages from the ALTLinux repositories in ALTLinux distributions.^[1]
• Caixa Mágica: APT-RPM and Urpmi are the package managers available on Caixa Mágica 12.
• openmamba: APT is the only way to upgrade packages in openmamba distribution.
• PCLinuxOS: APT is the backend for the only official way to upgrade packages in this distribution

See also

• Advanced Packaging Tool
• Smart Package Manager

External links

• apt-rpm home page
• Old apt-rpm home page
• apt4rpm SourceForge project page
• e-mail post about the end of the project

References

1. ↑ On APT in ALTLinux.

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