[NTLUG:Discuss] Mandrake questions

[MadHat]

mike wrote:
> 
>         Around here we tout both SuSE and Mandrake as being excellent for
> beginners.
> 
>         A lot of SuSE and ManDrake rpms work on each other.
> 
>         All one can do is try it and see.
> 
>         AFAIK all RPMS with noarch in the name will work on all distros.  I
> wish they were all "noarch"

the noarch means it isn't a compiled app, it is only scripts, and does
not mean they will work on any distro.  I have had those fail as well
(wrong location of perl, /usr/local/bin as compaired to /usr/bin, not
that big of a deal)

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