[opensuse] use 10.2 rpm's in 10.3? possible?
Hi, Most of the packages I use are available for 10.3 (32bit). But some of the packages (e.g. QtiPlot, kbibtex) aren't converted yet to 10.3 and are still a 10.2 version. Is it possible to install 10.2 rpm's in 10.3, without messing up my installation? What's the difference between 10.2 and 10.3 packages? Regards, André -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Oct 11 2007 14:44, drek wrote:
Most of the packages I use are available for 10.3 (32bit). But some of the packages (e.g. QtiPlot, kbibtex) aren't converted yet to 10.3 and are still a 10.2 version. Is it possible to install 10.2 rpm's in 10.3, without messing up my installation? What's the difference between 10.2 and 10.3 packages?
not necessarily. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Most of the packages I use are available for 10.3 (32bit). But some of the packages (e.g. QtiPlot, kbibtex) aren't converted yet to 10.3 and are still a 10.2 version. Is it possible to install 10.2 rpm's in 10.3, without messing up my installation? What's the difference between 10.2 and 10.3 packages?
It's always possible, just sometimes not advisable. :-) I've generally found that things only really go wrong with older RPMs built against much older libraries/kernel than are in your current version. Of course it depends on the application and how deep it reaches into the system. I run several applications on my 10.2 machine installed from RPMs built for/on 10.0 or 10.1 with no issues or problems at all. They are not system level apps.. just handy apps I like to use from time to time. As an alternative, you could rebuild the apps yourself on your 10.3 machine (assuming sources are available) and use 'checkinstall' to generate an RPM (instead of 'make install'). C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 14:54 +0200, Clayton wrote:
Most of the packages I use are available for 10.3 (32bit). But some of the packages (e.g. QtiPlot, kbibtex) aren't converted yet to 10.3 and are still a 10.2 version. Is it possible to install 10.2 rpm's in 10.3, without messing up my installation? What's the difference between 10.2 and 10.3 packages?
It's always possible, just sometimes not advisable. :-)
I've generally found that things only really go wrong with older RPMs built against much older libraries/kernel than are in your current version. Of course it depends on the application and how deep it reaches into the system.
I run several applications on my 10.2 machine installed from RPMs built for/on 10.0 or 10.1 with no issues or problems at all. They are not system level apps.. just handy apps I like to use from time to time.
As an alternative, you could rebuild the apps yourself on your 10.3 machine (assuming sources are available) and use 'checkinstall' to generate an RPM (instead of 'make install').
Or download the "src" rpm and build it on the 10.3 system. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Oct 11 2007 09:35, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 14:54 +0200, Clayton wrote:
Most of the packages I use are available for 10.3 (32bit). But some of the packages (e.g. QtiPlot, kbibtex) aren't converted yet to 10.3 and are still a 10.2 version.
Or download the "src" rpm and build it on the 10.3 system.
Or just wait until the original packager does it (the right way, btw). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
drek wrote:
Hi,
Most of the packages I use are available for 10.3 (32bit). But some of the packages (e.g. QtiPlot, kbibtex) aren't converted yet to 10.3 and are still a 10.2 version. Is it possible to install 10.2 rpm's in 10.3, without messing up my installation? What's the difference between 10.2 and 10.3 packages?
Regards, André
I did that with the wu-imap server. I'm running the package from 10.2 on 10.3 and it works fine. Generally, as long as the necessary libraries etc. are there, it doesn't matter what version or distro a package was created for. If it can't find what it needs, it will complain. ;-) -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 14:44 +0200, drek wrote:
Hi,
Most of the packages I use are available for 10.3 (32bit). But some of the packages (e.g. QtiPlot, kbibtex) aren't converted yet to 10.3 and are still a 10.2 version. Is it possible to install 10.2 rpm's in 10.3, without messing up my installation? What's the difference between 10.2 and 10.3 packages?
depends on the dependencies the package has. But you can always get the
10.2 src.rpm and rebuild it on 10.3
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Rodrigo Moya
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