On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 01:51, Robert Jonsson wrote: > > To be the quintesential dumb bunny again...So on MDK, I would use > > Kpackage to install MDK rpm's only? > > Kpackage isn't a packaging system. It's just an application to ease > administration of packages. > I think it was, once, the default administration tool in mandrake (but I'm not > sure). Mandrake has for many years now had it's version of apt-get called > urpmi, which is a layer ontop of rpm to ease installation of packages and > it's dependencies. There are quite a few urpmi repositories out on the net. Yup. I make great use of URPMI. Couldn't live without it! Thac's, the contrib servers and so on... R~ > > > Or could I use .deb or RH or what > > ever other packages to install to my MDK system? > > See the other mail I sent about that. In short, it does not work in general. > > > I know this is a > > stretch even as I write it. But I've written it....and what is written > > must be ........sent! > > Indeed ;) > > /Robert >
