Re: Why RPMs?

[Andreas Kostyrka <andreas rainbow studorg tuwien ac at>]

On Tue, 12 May 1998, Stephanos Piperoglou wrote:

> I've been trying to install GNOME on my Linux system for quite a while. The
> main problem is that most things won't compile out of CVS (I don't expect
> them to) and that all the compiled versions or releases are in RPMs, and I
> don't have rpm... Does anyone know if I can get RPM? I'm not sure how it
> works and wether it will work on a system that is technically Slackware,
> some way back in the depths of time, but practically of my own design? The
> FTP site only has tarballs for CVS snapshots, which aren't much use to me.
It will surly work. Just go to ftp.rpm.org and fetch rpm.
Only problem is, that rpm will not know anything about non-rpm-installed
software.

Andreas