[3193] in RedHat Linux List
debian and rpm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Fisk)
Thu Nov 7 13:37:30 1996
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 12:52:37 -0500
From: Steve Fisk <fisk@bowdoin.edu>
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The concept of package is a great idea. At the moment there appear to
be two competing versions - debian and redhat. Has any progress been
made in merging these two approaches, so that there is a generic
Linux packaging system?
I'm asking this because I wanted a piece of software that was only
packaged under debian, and I don't know how to install it.
Could someone tell me how to do this? (I don't want the whole
distribution - just one package!)
Perhaps "dpkg" and its associated information should be made into a
"debian.rpm" package.
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Steve Fisk Department of Mathematics
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207-725-3750 (fax) Brunswick, Me. 04011 USA
fisk@polar.bowdoin.edu
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