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Installing software on RedHat 5.2

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pawan Singh)
Wed Nov 25 14:28:09 1998

From: Pawan Singh <psingh@turnstonesystems.com>
To: "'redhat-list@redhat.com'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:24:45 -0800
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Hi,

All the RedHat installs come as packages. But there is a lot of software out
there which are not parcelled as a package. For example, if I want to
install 4.5 Communicator on Linux, it does not come as an RPM file. Is there
a way to convert "gzip" or "tar" files into packages?

Thanks
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pawan Singh
Turnstone Systems, Inc.
Phone: 650-404-0213
Email: psingh@turnstonesystems.com



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