Switch from RPM to DEBian Packages

Klaus-Peter Thiessen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.admin.managers
Organization o-matic Holding, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Linux-Managers,

I currently have an remote i386 Server on a lease base 
wich unfortunatly runs SuSE/7.2.

"Unfortunatly" because 
1.) I am used to Debian, updating and maintaining with 
    dpkg and apt-get and (therefore)
2.) I am extremely unfamiliar with SuSe and rpm, 
    especially for remote maintainance.

I managed to have apt-get for rpm running and also found
a source (or more) for package distribution. 
I also heard that SuSe is supposed to have some pretty 
tools for administration but I can't even use yast from 
the shell as I fail to get some of the keys working. 

Still the situation is quite disturbing for me - so I 
wondered if anyone has yet managed to turn the distribution 
from SuSe (or other rpm based system) to debian packages?
How would I install a dpkg and have it recognized all
installed software without reinstalling the entire system?

Any help / suggestions ?

Regards from germany,

Klaus-Peter Thiessen
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