The purpose of this paper is to study holomorphic approximation and
approximation of ∂ˉ-closed forms in complex manifolds of complex
dimension n≥1. We consider extensions of the classical Runge theorem and
the Mergelyan property to domains in complex manifolds for the smooth and the
L2 topology. We characterize the Runge or Mergelyan property in terms of
certain Dolbeault cohomology groups and some geometric sufficient conditions
are given