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I am fairly new to Linux and have noticed things like Debian has deb packages and fedora has rpm. there are probably allot more different packages ,myself I like Debian style but I am wondering if it is possible to download something from fedora or a different distro and unpackage and install the software to any distro or is there sometype of software that I would need to be able to do this? |
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To sum it up, it's pretty much this way..... If it's Red Hat or RH-based like Fedora, CentOS, etc, then use yum and/or RPMs If it's Debian/-based like Ubuntu, use apt-get, aptitude, synaptic and/or DEBs There is no universal package system for any Linux OS. the closest thing to that is source code. (...and I wouldn't count it since it's not really a "package" per se anyway) Just compile from source, but do watch out for the dependencies as was noted above by another poster. I know it may not seem like it, but the way things are is much better. |
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