On 12-Jul-2004 Russell Hanaghan wrote: } > http://www.general.uwa.edu.au/u/toivo/kpackage/ } } You know I've actually used this app. I tried a distro called ELX (?) I } think it was in that as I recall. I didn't dig into it much and did not } know what a Debian or a Soose wus! :) I still don't know what a Soose is. } To be the quintesential dumb bunny again...So on MDK, I would use } Kpackage to install MDK rpm's only? Or could I use .deb or RH or what } ever other packages to install to my MDK system? I know this is a } stretch even as I write it. But I've written it....and what is written } must be ........sent! I don't know... I think Mandrake's pretty particular. You can't escape all of the Mandrake rpms on the net though... I doubt you'd have a problem. I'm sure there must be something else {aside from the Mandrake package thing.} I've only accepted rpms as a valid package format for the last couple of years though... I'm not experienced enough with them to know which package managers offer just what features. I suppose you could just use rpm, rpm-ftp, etc... {Seeing as they have no dselect.} ---------------------------------- E-Mail: RickTaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: 12-Jul-2004 Time: 03:02:39 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------