On Monday 09 May 2005 11:12, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Basically the question revolves around location, location, location.
But not the only important thing. Another is libraries. A foreign package might expect to have this library and that, version X or Y, and placed here of there. If the package is a simple one, without many dependencies, you can install it on SUSE and not worry about location. Obviously, updates to that package will have to be done manually, too. However, in the case of a complex piece of software, you won't have much success. That is you won't break anything beyond repair (rpm --erase), but your software might not work. Examples of what won't work easily, from foreign packages: evolution, apache2, mysql. However, other generic rpms like acroread, BitTorrent, ICAClient will work. Except many of them won't create menu entries in the right places (if at all).