My short term goal is to install RH with only what I need. That is why I mentioned finding some resource that could tell me which packages require which other packages. I think I will be able to decide what services/apps I need to run but I don't have a clear idea of what those things need to do their job.
Don't know if I am biting off to much or not. Of course, that has never stopped me in the past. I usually don't burn-out trying a million different things as long as I learn something along the way. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Hebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 10:20 AM Subject: Re: Fw: Fw: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: [brluglist] source files? > > --- Cleve Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John, > > Does this mean that I can install an alternate > > package manager on RH rather > > than its own RHPM app? > > I was under the impression that RH, Mandrake, etc > > could only use rpms and > > Debian, etc could only use .deb files. > > Thanks, > > Cleve > > Yes, it does(!). There was a project a few months ago > that ported the Debian package manager to RedHat. I > can't find any links on that at the moment, can anyone > else? > > Also, there is a project called Alien that can convert > various software package formats to others. Again, no > good links at the moment. > > You should also get familiar with installing files > from source. Are you? > > John Hebert > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
