RPM's

[Sam Varshavchik]

Maciej R. writes:

> Hello out there,
> 
> I wanted to download aMule but there are no RPM's for Fedora Core 3
> (anyway - do you know good P2P tools?). Would the Suse 9.2 or FC2 ones
> work on my FC3?

No.

>         What are the differences between RPM's for different
> distros?

Different Linux distributions use different versions, and in some cases 
names, of shared libraries.  An application built against a particular 
shared library will not work with a different version of the library, in 
most cases.

>       Wouldn't it be easier to download a kind of EXE file for all
> distros?

Unpaid developers of free software do not have the time to provide pre-built 
packages for every one of hundreds of Linux distributions in existence.

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