So by that mean you can simply rename a foo.tar.gz to foo.tgz to make it installable with YaST, is that right? Joakim "Peter N. M. Hansteen" wrote:
At 07:55 11.11.98 +0100, you wrote:
Well, an other one... easy for some I believe but confusing for me. What is the differance? Most packages you find around is packed .tar.gz, but if you wanna use Yast to install or update a package not prepared by suse yet, Yast just support .rpm (hardly found anywere) and .tgz (hard to find as well), so how to do if you wanna use yast and the package only is found as .tar.gz?
..rpm files are packages in the "Redhat Package Manager" format, which has been adopted by among others Suse. All .tgz files I have dealt with were normall gnuzip compressed tar archives, which means that the only difference betwenn foobar.tar.gz and foobar.tgz is that the .tgz file name fits inside the DOS 8.3 name space. For the simple some perverse reason that most people who installed slackware and other early distributions mainly ran som variety of DOS, this name truncation was necessary in the early days.
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