What is a .package?

dravenloft · 05-12-2006, 01:09 AM

I've found a program I'd like to install, but I don't know what to do with it. It's a .package file. Now, I'm fully familiar with .rpm, and I'm using Debian. I've heard of but never encountered a Slackware .tgz, and of course good ol' compile them yourself tar.gz. This is a new one though, and googling for it isn't getting useful results because it ignores the "." at the beginning and well... can you guess just how many totally irrelevant matches I got?

imagineers7 · 05-12-2006, 01:24 AM

Hi,

I don't know what's it really but try:-

file <filename.package>

It will tell you if it knows

T.Hsu · 05-12-2006, 07:20 AM

It may be an autopackage file.

http://autopackage.org/

dravenloft · 05-12-2006, 09:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by T.Hsu

It may be an autopackage file.

http://autopackage.org/

Gods... I think you're right. I remember a LinuxJournal article about that now you mention it. It says it's a Bourne-Again script executable. I'll check out autopackage, that's what I was wondering in the first place and couldn't remember the name.

EDIT: It is an autopackage. I just installed it. This is pretty spiffy, if I had the patience I'd try building a distro off of it.