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You sometimes get binary incompatability with major number version changes, like kde2 to kde3 for example, but most version number changes are binary compatable, kde3.0 to kde3.2 for example.
great information.. thanks to you both... I have been looking at Red-Carpet, RHN as well as Synaptic and they each seem to be comprhensive but dsparate at the smae time. Is there something that will seen everything that is installed (not just what is in the freshmeat database etc) and find the latest releases?
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Stupid question???
