[ale] AT&T Unix Package Utility

[Keith Hopkins]

cfowler wrote:
> Nope.  You'll have to lean rpm or deb or tar.
> 
> On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 09:43, Jay Fox wrote:
> 
>>Folks,
>>On AT&T's UNIX there is a package manager.  Does anyone know if there is a version of the utility for RH 7.2 on i386?  I don't have the time to learn a new package manager at the moment.
>>

Well, there actually is a pkgadd (ala SysV) utility for Linux.  It's native to Crux Linux.  There are a couple of others that are similar in function (Slackware's pkgtool).  Even if pkgadd does work under RH, it wouldn't do you much good, unless you want to create your own packages.  RH packages created by others are usually delivered in RPM format.  Those that are not RPMs are often found in simple tar.gz file collections (i.e. not really packages).

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Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith



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