On Friday 28 February 2003 08:07 pm, Kent West wrote: > Teilhard Knight wrote: > >>Kent West wrote: > >> > >>But > >>natively, Debian doesn't use the .rpm format > >>(although it can in many cases with the "alien" package). > > > >Thanks a lot, Kent. A friend of mine told me Debian takes Red Hat > > drivers and to install it as simply as: rpm -ivh package_name. This > > must be news for you, so maybe I, through my friend, am contributing > > something. :o) > > Wow! You're right; I didn't know about the rpm command being on Debian. > But sure enough, it's on my box, and the man page says indicates that > it'll install rpms. > > Cool. > > Kent
I think to be LSB compliant a distro has to be able to install rpm's. RPM seems to be the LSB package format. http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_1.3.0/gLSB/gLSB/swinstall.html -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]