Re: Redhat Package Manager

[Kevin Mitchell <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I did use the mini HOW-TO and have installed RPM on my Slackware system.
It was very easy to do.  mini HOW-TOs are wonderful.  

<shameless plug> 
Check out the Cyrus-IMAP one ;-)
</shameless plug>

Kevin

On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Scott Yellig wrote:

> 
> I did this on my debian system back when alien was yet to exist (alien
> sort of 'ports' packages from an 'alien' package system to the native one)
> 
> I did it without a HOWTO, even :) ... its not exactly tar -zxvf to get it
> working, but its not too dificult either.
> 
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> On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Justin Miller wrote:
> 
> >      I have not tried it, but there is a Mini-HOWTO that explains how to get
> > RPM installed and working properly under Slackware. The author also says
> > that it is probably applicable to any Linux distribution.
> > 
> > http://www.threepoint.com/HOWTO/RPM+Slackware.html
> > 
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