31 Aug
2006
31 Aug
'06
21:57
On 31/08/06, rich <Rich3800@aol.com> wrote:
I wanted to run Yahoo Messenger on Suse 10.1 but the Yahoo web site provides packages for other distros than Suse. I tried to install Yahoo Messenger anyway, and miracle, it worked. It brings to mind the question of what requirements a package must meet to be able to run on Suse. How can I tell a non-Suse package will be able to run on Suse (10.1) successfully?
I really should have tried to find the link before posting this, but I once read that one user had no trouble installing rpms on Debian if he used the --nodeps option. So to find out if a given package will work, I would just try installing it. In my experience if it will fail, rpm won't let you install it anyhow. Jeff.