According to Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > *RPMs for RedHat may NOT work with Mandrake* > > In General Mandrake should be 99% compatible with RedHat RPMs. > > Should be does not mean they actually are. > > The Abiword RPMs may not neccessarily be compatible (ill take hubs word > that they dont, i hope the fix suggested works). > (Package management sucks ass on linux)
Let me state this more clearly: A distribution contains a given set of package where some depends on the others. A package depends on a given set of packages of specified version, even more if it depends on some GNOME package. So a package is designed for ONE distribution version, nothing else. If you don't run that distribution, you are SOL. Usually rebuilding the package MAY works. Hope that clarifies. Hub -- Job-less AbiWord hacker. - http://www.teaser.fr/~hfiguiere/ Cell phone: +33 6 18 01 42 11 GPG fingerprint: 6C44 DB3E 0BF3 EAF5 B433 239A 5FEE 05E6 A56E 15A3
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