James Wilkinson wrote:
Claude Jones wrote:
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You know, depending on the application, just installing the RPM has a good chance of working. Linux tends to have good binary compatibility for userland apps. And most RPM dependencies tend to be on files or libraries, not RPM names. Applications which are more stand alone and less tied into a toolkit have a better chance of working than ones that are heavily dependent on other RPMs. Bizaarely, this means that older programs have a better chance of working. (Of course, you may have to hunt down required libraries and the like yourself. But that's not necessarily impossible. The Red Hat series of compat-*.rpm packages can help here). I have several RPMs install that come from old distros. I've never noticed a problem with any of the programs. James.
This is a good reason for the --test flag. You can just rpm -ivh --test {package} and see if it will work.
-- Robin Laing
