Is it possible to rpm and yum package manager in Ubuntu

Question

I saw rpm and yum packages in the official repos!
Will installing it mean that I will be able to install .rpm apps from Fedora repos??

See the pictures attached apt search rpm results showing and describing yum package manager

apt search rpm results showing and describing rpm package manager

No you did not. You saw a tool named that that is basically "alien". A packge converter. — Rinzwind, Sep 19 '16 at 10:14
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score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

Will installing it mean that I will be able to install .rpm apps from Fedora repos??

No. I believe these package are in the repository for serving other purposes. For rpm it is required by alien package for converting . And for yum I believe that's included for working in a chroot environment as hinted by this launchpad answer.

And there will lots of issues if you try to use a rpm repository in Ubuntu. You need a working rpm based system to use a rpm repository. Ubuntu is based on Debian and uses debian packages. Trying to install even a simplest dirdiff rpm throws errors complaining lacking of most basic libc.so.6 library. It's also not recognizing /bin/sh and ldconfig, although those are available in the system.

Here is the output of the trial

rpm: RPM should not be used directly install RPM packages, use Alien instead!
rpm: However assuming you know what you are doing...
warning: Downloads/dirdiff-2.1-163.6.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 3dbdc284: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
    /bin/sh is needed by dirdiff-2.1-163.6.x86_64
    /sbin/ldconfig is needed by dirdiff-2.1-163.6.x86_64
    libc.so.6()(64bit) is needed by dirdiff-2.1-163.6.x86_64
    libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) is needed by dirdiff-2.1-163.6.x86_64
    libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)(64bit) is needed by dirdiff-2.1-163.6.x86_64
    libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)(64bit) is needed by dirdiff-2.1-163.6.x86_64
    tcl is needed by dirdiff-2.1-163.6.x86_64
    tk is needed by dirdiff-2.1-163.6.x86_64

This indicates that, A whole system should be built based on rpm packages, otherwise it's not possible to just install rpm. However, you can install rpm packages by first converting those into debian packages.

Check these question

How do I install and manage RPMs?
This answer of the question When would yum be of use to an Ubuntu user? about Yums purpose in Ubuntu repository

Is it possible to rpm and yum package manager in Ubuntu

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