On Sat, 23 May 1998, hekate wrote:
THe RedHat RPMS are glibc based and if you try to build then on the SuSE sys I don't think it'll work. Slak packs are fine though. YOu might want to try either finding a SuSE proggie you like for this or building one from source. Also checkout freshmeat they have a decent software archive you can search through to see if you see something to your liking.
FYI Red Hat maintains a vast repository of rpms contributed by users in two main sections--one libc based and compatible with RH 4.2 and the other glibc based and compatible with RH 5.0. Theoretically, all of the libc rpms could be installed on S.u.S.E. However, I wouldn't advise it as the S.u.S.E. and Red Hat directory schemas for installing and library access are quite different. My original question was whether a repository of *user contributed* rpms exists somewhere for S.u.S.E. If it does not yet exist, it would certainly be worthwhile to create one. Dwight -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e