sharing programs from distro to distro

LAV5 · 10-22-2020, 04:11 PM

i want to move programs from pre packaged distros and move them to other pre packaged distros. ex, i want fedora scientific fedora robotics, etc all on one boot/iso file. also i am wondering how well running fedora programs converted for biolinux use would be?

DavidMcCann · 10-22-2020, 04:48 PM

It would not be simple. Biolinux (now no longer active) was Debian based. That means that the dependency information is different: a given program will have library A as a dependency, but Fedora puts A in package X and Debian puts it in package Y. That sort of thing can be sorted, but it's often very time consuming.

boughtonp · 10-22-2020, 04:57 PM

You might be interested in Bedrock Linux - as per it's FAQ:

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Why should I use Bedrock?
If you have experience with a number of Linux distributions and find whenever you're on one distro you miss a feature provided by another, Bedrock may provide a suitable means of getting the best of multiple worlds.

Sounds like that might be what you're after?

frankbell · 10-22-2020, 07:56 PM

Packages designed for one package format (e. g., *.rpm for Fedora) are generally not compatible with distros that use another format (e. g., *.deb).

There are various tools which purport to be able to convert from one package format to another, but the only one I have ever used is Slackware's rpm2tgz, which works quite nicely, but is very specific to Slackware.

You best bet is to find the applicatio(s) in question in the distros native repos or, failing that, to install from sources, which is much easier than it sounds.

fatmac · 10-23-2020, 04:12 AM

Compile the native source files on your distro if it doesn't have it in its repo, otherwise you could easily end up in dependency hell.