Steve Ovens

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Steve is a dedicated IT professional and Linux advocate. Prior to joining Red Hat, he spent several years in financial, automotive, and movie industries. Steve currently works for Red Hat as an Architect in the Solutions and Technology Practice. He has certifications ranging from the RHCA (in DevOps), to Ansible, to Containerized Applications and more. He spends a lot of time discussing technology and writing tutorials on various technical subjects with friends, family, and anyone who is interested in listening.
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That's good feedback. I had not considered npm, pip, ruby gems and the like.

As for the examples, which I believe you are referring to, I like to provide a lot of examples as that is what is meaningful to me when I am looking up information. But you are correct, the package managers themselves didn't really have a direct path to each other, and thus the examples do not show that.

I never used Synaptic for RPM based systems but definitely for DEB based ones.

I still have occasion to build RPMs from their 'spec' files, although, thankfully that is rare these days.