superbeast wrote: > I have noticed that certain software packages have different rpm's for > the different distributions, and I was wondering why. If the core of the > OS is the same version, why the need to create separate rpm's for SuSE, > RedHat, Fedora, etc.? Different distros use different versions of system libraries and compilers (eg, glibc, gcc, etc...) to build the packages. Each vendor produces packages that work with their OS setup. Those RPM's may/may not work on another distro. If you find a package in another distro that is not available from your OS vendor, you can grab the SRPM (source RPM) and compile it from source. man rpm(1) and read the section on building RPMS (rpm -ba). -- scot _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list