Wade Hampton wrote: > Do you have a better suggestion? I think that using .rpm or .deb is no-sense because different distributors package the files into a different way. I wonder if there are 2 distributors that package the files into the same way (example: RedHat and SuSE).
So i think it is very hard to install a package from another distribution. Also if you use 'alien' to convert package it requires perl and others software ... so it is best to use a normal .tar.gz file What is your opinion instead about source distribution like FreeBSD /usr/ports/ ? Antonio Gallo
