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voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by The Master of Reality / B0b:
.tgz doesnt check dependencies?? I have yet for one tgz package to not work. It also is faster on slackware 8.1 installing squid on the same computer as installing squid from rpm (200MHz 80Mb RAM).
try www.linuxpackages.net for slackware packages. I have found almost every package i need from there.
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Really? What about GCC not working because you didn't have GLIBC installed?

[ December 17, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

Calum:
hm.

to be honest it sounds as if the problem is that not all programs are available as source. it's well and good to say 'use the source (luke)', but if a program is available for red hat and mandrake as a binary rpm, you're up a gum tree if your distro doesn't support rpm. Most notably i have tried to find rpm versions of quite a few debian packages in my time, and sometimes they just do not exist.

Also, if *IX wants to appeal to newbies, this habit of not including the libraries with the program is not going to help matters. No wonder most linux distros come with so many programs, no newbie could install programs themselves! Not sure what can be done about it though, i shudder to think what would happen if everything was shoved into each program's binaries, like in windows.

voidmain:
What deb packages have you seen for Debian that are not available in source form?

Calum:
oh now you're asking! i must look sheepish and say i can't remember to be honest! it was a good while ago and i honestly can't remember what they were for! i remember it was something i was after, maybe an mp3 player, or a graphical downloader utility or something i was trying to find a good one of, and i saw this description on a page that looked like just what i wanted, but then all the links led to debian files. So i searched on sourceforge and google but no mention of any other formats to get the program in (although i did find a mirror or two of the debian files if i recall correctly).

As i say, little credence is attributable to my story since i can't remember what they were or where they came from or when it was! sorry...

[ December 18, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

beltorak0:

quote:Originally posted by The Master of Reality / B0b:
.tgz doesnt check dependencies?? I have yet for one tgz package to not work. It also is faster on slackware 8.1 installing squid on the same computer as installing squid from rpm (200MHz 80Mb RAM).
try www.linuxpackages.net for slackware packages. I have found almost every package i need from there.
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cool; I'll hafta check that out in a little bit.
thanks

-t.

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