First, I would like to say that I understand the basic idea of disassociation and solubility. However, as I study intermolecular forces I feel like this basic Idea is being challenged. My understanding from basic chemistry is that ionic bonds are much stronger than covalent bonds, due to the actual exchange of electrons and the formation of cations and anions, causing an attractive force between the opposite charges to "hold" the compound together. When explaining solubility with IMF theory, however, I fail to understand how the IM forces present in water--dipole-dipole, H-bonds, and dispersion--are able to overcome that attraction between the cation and anion present in the ionic bond; because, I was under the impression that actual bonds are always stronger than IMF bonds. So, for instance, does it not infer that if, say, Sodium Chloride is placed into water, and the attraction of the h-bonds in water cause the NaCl to essentially break apart into ions, that the inherent attractions between cations and anions in an ionic compound are weaker than the attraction force of the h-bond water molecule?


Question: What package managers do popular Unix Distributions Use?
Answer: You would probably be better off creating a .deb package for Debian based distros (including Ubuntu), and .rpm package for Red-Hat based distros (including Fedora), and making the .tar file available for everybody else. Don't concern yourself with which package manager each distro uses. For instance, although I run a Debian-derived distro, I personally use the aptitude package manager. But and .deb package will install for me, assuming that it targets the versions of dependencies that I have installed.