From grant@dgc-nms.co.uk Mon Mar 23 14:58:53 1998
From: grant@dgc-nms.co.uk
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Package managment
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:58:53 +0100
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The easiest rpm tool I've found for the X Window System is glint, it's
totally GUI and works well.

Grant Crawley. <grant(a)dgc-nms.co.uk>

Hurricane Linux is coming and is going to blow the Windows out.

At 07:15 23/03/98 -0600, you wrote:
>
>I installet xrpm and used it to get netscape off of a cheapbytes disk, so it
>seems compatable to me.  Easy even.  But I had to hunt it to install it.
>
>Mark Wagnon wrote:
>
>> TEX wrote:
>> >
>> > Is there a control panel or other way to do rpms in SuSE.. The guiier
>> > the better.
>> > I need to get netscape communicator off of my cheapbyted cd into suse.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > --
>> > LINUX IS THE PATH.
>> >
>>
>> I guess there's a X-based front end to rpm, but I haven't used it. If
>> you want to just install an rpm, open up an xterm and cd to whereever
>> the rpm is and type rpm -ivh filename.rpm, where the -ivh means install,
>> verbose, display # signs as a progress indicator. Pretty straightfoward.
>> However, I have a question that I posted earlier which was never
>> answered: are redhat rpms and suse rpms compatible?
>>
>> Luck and thanks
>>
>> Mark
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>LINUX IS THE PATH.
>
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REF=3D"http://www.ccms.net/~mhtexcollins/78704.htm</A">http://www.ccms.net/~m=
htexcollins/78704.htm</A</A>>
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