Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-tomcat-user-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 14310 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2003 18:56:02 -0000 Received: from exchange.sun.com (192.18.33.10) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 7 Jan 2003 18:56:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 9034 invoked by uid 97); 7 Jan 2003 18:56:46 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 9008 invoked by uid 97); 7 Jan 2003 18:56:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact tomcat-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Tomcat Users List" Reply-To: "Tomcat Users List" Delivered-To: mailing list tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 8992 invoked by uid 98); 7 Jan 2003 18:56:45 -0000 X-Antivirus: nagoya (v4218 created Aug 14 2002) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 18:55:24 +0000 From: Rasputin To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: RPMs Message-ID: <20030107185524.GA837@idoru.tenten> Reply-To: Rasputin References: <90460D7B3DDAAA43906C479AC4B860B5014780@comtrol-2gu7cfa> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <90460D7B3DDAAA43906C479AC4B860B5014780@comtrol-2gu7cfa> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N * Kevin Wilson [0134 17:34]: > If you have a Linux box and like to keep your installed programs nice and > tidy using the RPM program then rpms are essential unless there is another > program used for managing installation of program from tar/tgz/tar.gz > archives? > I run SuSE v8.0 & 8.1 and there was a kb article that said to use a program > called /sbin/installpkg for installing ".tgz" packages but I have never seen > this nor am I sure that "tar.gz" is the same as ".tgz" > > Guidance? tgz == tar.gz == tarball. You just extract them and everything you need is there. You get on with your life. For a taste of how much saner than RPM things can get, I recommend the Penguinistas among you try something like gentoo, or another Linux software system which is based on *BSD packages. You get all the ease of admin and version control, without the horrors of updating (say) Mozilla and finding it's been compiled against slightly differnet versions of your libraries, so having to download 12 new RPMs for those libraries, which in turn breaks dependencies on other packages which need those libraries... rinse, repeat. Try doing that for libraries that RPM itself depends on, or libc, for example. Fun for all the family. How we laughed when RedHat released the new version of rpm, and the rpm of, uh, rpm was released in the *new* format. Which made it impossible to install, unless you'd already installed it. Nice. I haven't used Linux since, and still have bad dreams about it. I hear Suse is less horrible, but then I hear a lot of things... -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: