The DUB package manager

[Matt Soucy]

On 02/19/2013 04:18 AM, Dicebot wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19 February 2013 at 08:34:13 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2013-02-19 08:19, Dicebot wrote:
>>
>>> You can. Debian is weird though because it is done via dpkg, not
>>> apt-get.
>>> In Arch it is as simple to "pacman -U package-file" vs "pacman -S
>>> name-in-repo".
>>
>> Isn't apt-get built on top of dpkg or something like that?
>
> It is. AFAIK apt-get is dpkg + getting packages via repo sources. But
> last time I have been searching, found no way to proxy dpkg call to
> install local package via apt-get which felt a bit weird. Probably my
> failure at searching though.

In Red Hat & Fedoraland, it's a somewhat similar situation. RPMs are 
(usually) installed with the rpm command:
rpm -I dmd-2.062-0.fedora.x86_64.rpm
but yum (also, I believe, dnf for Fedora 18 users) can also install 
them, and do dependency checking:
yum install dmd-2.062-0.fedora.x86_64.rpm