Questions about using yum in Ubuntu.

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Configure Ubuntu as Yum client

Like in Red Hat, we make Yum client by getting into /etc/yum.repos.d/ and make a repo file For eg:-client.repo The file mainly includes baseurl=ftp://[192.16.0.1]/pub/Packages Is there any such path ...
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Install RPM-packages on Ubuntu using Yum [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I install and manage RPMs? I'm building a cross compile environment for mingw32, and Fedora has a complete set of all the libraries, headers and dlls I require ...
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When would yum be of use to an Ubuntu user?

My understanding is that yum, and the rpm system, is only useful on distributions such as Red Hat, Fedora and CentOS. I thought that Ubuntu, as a Debian based system, had no use for yum. So I was ...