On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 11:51:03AM +0530, newlxuser wrote:
>
> Can we intermix & use same apps & their respective binaries
> in a single Linux Distro ? For example, same text/X-editors
> (like vi, joe, elvis etc ) but from RH, Caldera, Debian.
>
Don't know what is the point of the exercise ! Why have three
binaries (obviously doing the same thing) installed together?
Firstly they need to have different names (e.g. vi-rh, vi-deb
etc). If you can resolve library dependencies, the binaries
will run. There may be conflicts in man and documentation.
It is not advisable to mix packages from different distros
(specially those with strong installation policies like deb-
ian and RH) ... and specially so, for the same program.
It can be done, but very selectively for something NOT avail-
able in any other distro (e.g. xsis.rpm from SuSE). NOT reco-
mmended as routine or multiple installations of same program.
The steps are:
a) Take the foreign package (for RH, it would be .deb or .tgz
or .rpm from other non RH distros)
b) Inspect the contents. For rpm should not be difficult. For
others convert to .tar.gz (with alien, or other means)
c) Do a tar -tzvf on the tarball to get a package list.
d) Confirm that there are no name conflicts with anything in
existing setup
e) Copy this to /tmp and untar it (tar -xzvf tarball.tar.gz)
f) Identify the binaries, and do a ldd on each individually
and check against your local /lib for satisfactory depen-
dencies.
g) If all are satisfactory, then convert it to native format
for your distro using alien. For deb to rpm, you may need
static version of dpkg installed.
h) Install with rpm -i (this will make package administration
a bit easier).
i) Last word of advice : DO NOT do above. If you want to vary
with the default binary for your distro, at best compile
from the developer's tarball.
>
> A group want to use it that way !
>
The "group" must be a bunch of adventurous kids to even think
of such gimmicks, for no additional benefit :-(
Most programs once installed, run the same for ALL distros.
Configurations and other things can change the look-and-feel.
But all of them are very much alterable. It is much better to
change personal configurations in dot and rc files.
HTH
Bish
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