Installing Libranet in VMware ?

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Yup, been there, done that!  My last RPM hunt was for the old Caldera WS 
3.1 machine that I'm replacing with Gentoo and that was about a year ago.  
If I went back to RPM distros I'd probably look at apt-get.  When I did to 
the RPM thing I either wrote my own for packages or found the source (even 
back then I was "Using the Source, Collins" <G>) if I could.  Someday when 
I have all the time in the world I'll check out another one like SUSE.



Collins wrote:

> On Friday 26 December 2003 18:16, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>> Thanks for the information.  I'm running Gentoo and it has an ebuild.  I
>> hope not to see RPM for a very long time <G>.  I'm not familiar with
>> VMWare
> 
> Just a little <ot> here, and no <G> needed.
> 
> I, too, have a general aversion to RPM, but the modern distros like SUSE
> and Red Hat do a fine job of doing dependancy checking (a la portage) and
> relieving the less savy user from the intricacies of RPM.  The one thing
> they don't have is the tremendously broad availability of standard
> packages (a la
> portage).  Hunting down a suitable RPM package is now the worst aspect of
> an
> RPM based system.  Of course, in you install all the -dev packages, you
> can always just build from source.
> 

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