On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Rainer Peter Feller
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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!
I'd like to say that this thread is not about package management
systems. Feel free to start a thread on one. This thread is about
making a livecd and installer for a custom LFS distro I made. How do I
go about it? Any good documentation to look at?
>
> 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
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