Rpms for 'Other' distributions

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 12 March 2006 20:01, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 17:45 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Makes sense.  I don't know whether this is worth spending time in
> > searching. I read a review a while back, and thought that this package
> > may help me identify multiple copies of .jpgs, but there doesn't seem to
> > be an FC4 rpm of it.  I'll poke around a bit more and see if anything
> > similar is available.
>
> Does't matter what distro (OK it does if it's an apple/orange comparison
> such as debian to fedora), as it only depends on what the rpm was
> compiled against.  Anycase, just run the below command or use the below
> rpm option to see if you would run into any problems or not.  And then
> if it works and you want to try it out, run it with extra verbose on to
> see what exactly it does install.
>
> rpm -ivh --test package.rpm
>
> then..
>
> rpm -ivvh package.rpm
>
The 'vv' being doubly verbose?  OK, thanks.

Anne
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