Which distro that uses RPM's is the most similar to Slackware?

abefroman · 11-25-2005, 04:22 PM

Which distro that uses RPM's is the most similar to Slackware?
http://rpm.pbone.net/

Thanks in advance!

win32sux · 11-25-2005, 04:38 PM

maybe Suse?? i know it was originally based on slackware, but i'm not sure how much of the slackware way of doing things has remained through the years... BTW, you can use RPMs on slackware...

XavierP · 11-25-2005, 04:44 PM

If Slackware is that important to you, why not use Slackware? or ArchLinux?

abefroman · 11-25-2005, 04:55 PM

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Originally posted by XavierP
If Slackware is that important to you, why not use Slackware? or ArchLinux?

ArchLinux or Arklinux?

I need something with RPMs to make a template for my VPS server.

win32sux · 11-25-2005, 04:59 PM

well, any distro with RPM will let you work with RPMs... it doesn't have to be an RPM-based distro... like i said, slackware works fine with RPMs... i believe most distros do also, considering RPM is the standard linux package format according to LSB... i don't know what a VPS server template is, though...

mrapathy · 11-26-2005, 09:01 AM

slackware can use rpm's as long as you disable depency check. you can convert nearly any package format to another with alien.

Debian although doesnt use rpm as its main package should be able to use rpm's also.
what with the rpm fixation? why not deb or tgz ? thought was a bastardized version of rpm for mandrake or something else not completely compatible with original rpm.

slackware is the proganitor to alot of the distributions now availible.
redhat,debian.gentoo not sure about suse. lots of minimalist distro's.

win32sux · 11-26-2005, 02:44 PM

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Originally posted by mrapathy
slackware is the proganitor to alot of the distributions now availible.
redhat,debian.gentoo not sure about suse.

yeah, suse was originally based on SLS and Slackware, back in the early 90s... then in the mid 90s it based itself on Jurix, which in itself was based on Slackware...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suse

PS: i had no idea it was the progenitor for redhat, debian, and gentoo, though... any links where we could read about that??

abefroman · 11-26-2005, 03:28 PM

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Originally posted by mrapathy
slackware can use rpm's as long as you disable depency check.

Do I just use the --nodeps flag for that?

win32sux · 11-26-2005, 03:30 PM

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Originally posted by abefroman
Do I just use the --nodeps flag for that?

yes.

and if you installed (all) the RPM's dependancies via RPM then you wouldn't even need to do that AFAIK, cuz in that case RPM would "know" about the already-installed dependancies...

gnashley · 11-27-2005, 01:38 AM

--nodeps --force
Also, read the man page and you'll see how to setup an rc file for popt which will let you use more familiar rpm commands.
Really not a good idea to install packages this way though.