Hi, just to add a litte bist distubance ... There is also this tar.gz stuff which slackware does ... and sice it IS one of (if not) the oldes linux distros around it should be mentioned ...
So long, and thanks for the fish! Rainer On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 12:13 +0530, Ravi Kumar Tenneti wrote: > Dear Abhinav, > > > AFAIK Fedora (being RedHats equivalent to openSUSE) also uses > RPM and > probably a comparable mechanism. For Ubuntu I don't know. > > > > There are broadly only two package management schemes in Linux World - > one is RPM & other is DEB. > > > RPM stands for Redhat Package Management > DEB - basically derived out of Debian. > > > Ubuntu is a derivate of Debian so uses - deb package management > (apt-get install "package name") > Fedora, RHEL, CentOS and others use rpm package management. (rpm -ivh > "package name) > > > 95% of Linux distributions follow either of the above two > > > Regards > > > Ravi Kumar > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- H CUH Rainer Peter Feller H -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
