On 9/9/06, Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Location of the installed app ie in usr or somewhere different to what SuSE expects. Location of the dependencies, evenif there aren't any. The RPM file built for Suse knows in what directories to find what it needs. Install another distro RPM that expects to find the dependencies in a different directory to the SuSE standard and you have a SNAFU ie dependant packages are in /home as opposed to the SuSE way of /lib.
<snip> this is why it would be nice, if there was a "compare and contrast" document somewhere, that showed the normal paths expected by the major distros. I have faced this when trying to install, for example, the freetds package ... folks assisting me where surprised concering where binaries where found in contrast to Red Hat. I *suspect* that SUSE has more variance from the "regular" than other RPM distros ... is my suspicion correct? At any rate, it would be useful to have a Red Hat vs SUSE path defaults comparison. Peter