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RPM's are good, but the sort of install on the system rather than unpack, DEB's are for debian specific machines. TGZ (.tar.gz) is pretty much the only universal packaging system (other than .zip).
Besides, you should not have put in DEB and RPM for they are not packing systems, but more installation packing systems. You should have used BZ2, ZIP, etc...
Originally posted by linuxbotx TGZ (.tar.gz) is pretty much the only universal packaging system (other than .zip).
no, TGZ refers to the .tgz packaging system in slackware linux. it's like an RPM. it does not refer to .tar.gz which is used just for compression.
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Originally posted by linuxbotx Besides, you should not have put in DEB and RPM for they are not packing systems, but more installation packing systems. You should have used BZ2, ZIP, etc...
he said packaging systems and not packing systems. packaging is what you call installation packing.
I like RPMs best, but only if they're managed with a good APT repository. Otherwise, DEBs are best, since most distributions that use them are just Debian mods, they can be easily set up to use Debian's apt repository (the most extensive and best one around, IMHO)
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