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On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 06:14:36PM +0000, Kevin Adler wrote:

AFAIK, nobody has tried to port apt/dpkg to any OS besides Linux. The
tools surrounding apt/dpkg are also heavily coupled to the Debian
ecosystem as well.

It's ported to FreeBSD:

https://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=dpkg

and was used by the OpenSolaris based Nexenta:

http://www.DistroWatch.org/table.php?distribution=nexenta



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