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Originally Posted by xzibit-d12
Are there different package managers for different distro's or do i have to get a package manager for a particular package to be installed.
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Every distro has his own package managers, of course, severals distros uses someones in common, all this because distros commonly are based on others 'n' get their capacities.
You don't need "a package manager" for a package, not quite though, you need in any case packages accordin' with the package manager your system use
You have only three packages managers with the distros you have:
SuSE use 'YaST' based on RPM packages (foo.rpm)
Red Hat is the mother of RPM system so use a manager based on that kind of packages
Knoppix, Ubuntu and Xubuntu in your case, are debian's based distros, so they use APT like package manager and .deb packages
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Can there be more than one package manager on a single distro and if there how will they both be able to manage the packeges/files without conflict.
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In some distros is the oportunity to add a package manager for a different package system that the distro's package system, like usin' APT in a RPM based distro.
An finally about the 'source' package, you have to compile it to get it working..
In a common way, is usin something like
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./configure && make && make install
but that's just a general idea....the './configure' have many options for an specific package so you use ./configure --help to know the possible options for that package...
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