RPM's
Sam Varshavchik
mrsam at courier-mta.com
Sun Jan 9 01:04:46 UTC 2005
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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