That is correct, albeit there may very well be exceptions. RPMs and
binary packages on Red Hat based distros are one and the same. The RPM
package is the default means by which software is installed on RH
based distros, in the same way as .debs are used for Debian based
distros (eg. Ubuntu) or DMG/PKGs are used on OSX. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager
The key difference is the more rapid development path for Fedora,
given it's "raison d'etre" to be a bleeding edge platform for desktop
Linux. The rapid development cycle translates into short post release
timelines and frequent upgrades.
Thus, the versions of applications, kernels and the underlying
libraries on Fedora are going to be much more recent than RHEL. RHEL
(like it's cousin CentOS) is designed to be a stable server platform
with multi-year post-release support. Stability and up time are the
priorities at the expense of bleeding edge technology, given the
nature of servers and the desire for reliability.
RHEL 4 (2005) is roughly equivalent to Fedora 3 and RHEL 5 (2007) is
roughly equivalent to Fedora 6. So you can get a feel for where they
are relative to Fedora 11 and 12, which are the currently supported
versions.
With RPMs, there will be dependencies on certain versions of other
libraries and those dependencies may be incompatible across the
distributions. The mixing and matching of RPMs across distros, or even
different versions of the same distro, is typically a rapid path to
the netherworld colloquially known as "RPM Hell" and the need for
significant amounts of 18 year old single malt Scotch...although yum
and similar intelligent package management tools have aided greatly in
reducing that path by better controlling for dependencies.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
On Dec 23, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Christos Hatzis wrote:
Thank you Marc.
To be clear for future reference, binaries packaged for Fedora
distro's
are not to be installed on RHEL and vice versa. Same holds for rpm's?
Thanks.
-Christos
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 16:31 -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote:
On Dec 23, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Christos Hatzis wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to install RKWard to an RHEL workstation. I tried
$ yum install rkward
but that did not work as it could not find the package in the
standard
repositories. The RKWard project page suggests that
You can also find the build (of all versions of RKWard) at koji and
other information regarding the package at pkgdb
Is there a way to install the package on RHEL or the above resources
are
only built for Fedora?
Thank you.
-Christos
Christos,
The EPEL is the yum based repo for RHEL and more info is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
That being said, I did not see the package listed in Bodhi for RHEL,
only for FC11 and FC12, which are the currently supported versions of
Fedora. F10 went EOL in the past week.
The Bodhi link is here:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/rkward
The same for Koji:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=4881
The RKWard site does not list pre-built binaries being available for
RHEL, only Fedora within the domain of RH distros:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/rkward/index.php?title=Binaries_and_Build_Scripts
Thus, you will likely have to install from source for the time being.
Information on that path is here:
http://rkward.sourceforge.net/
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
--
Christos Hatzis, Ph.D.
Nuvera Biosciences
Woburn, MA 01801
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