On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 14:54 +0200, Clayton wrote: > > Most of the packages I use are available for 10.3 (32bit). But some of > > the packages (e.g. QtiPlot, kbibtex) aren't converted yet to 10.3 and > > are still a 10.2 version. Is it possible to install 10.2 rpm's in 10.3, > > without messing up my installation? What's the difference between 10.2 > > and 10.3 packages? > > It's always possible, just sometimes not advisable. :-) > > I've generally found that things only really go wrong with older RPMs > built against much older libraries/kernel than are in your current > version. Of course it depends on the application and how deep it > reaches into the system. > > I run several applications on my 10.2 machine installed from RPMs > built for/on 10.0 or 10.1 with no issues or problems at all. They are > not system level apps.. just handy apps I like to use from time to > time. > > As an alternative, you could rebuild the apps yourself on your 10.3 > machine (assuming sources are available) and use 'checkinstall' to > generate an RPM (instead of 'make install'). >
Or download the "src" rpm and build it on the 10.3 system. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
