The RPM Fusion Project
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| We aim to provide support for all 'current' versions of Fedora including
| devel,
| for i386, ppc, ppc64 and x86_64.
|
| We hope to attract new Fedora packagers and many other 3rd party
| repositories.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/249179/
Related:
First rpm.org-RPM version released
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| Recently the first version of rpm.org’s RPM tool was released. While it is
| only a minor version (4.4.2.1) this release is a milestones because it is a
| coordinated release between the participating distributions.
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http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/first-rpmorg-rpm-version-released/
RPM Package Manager
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| Welcome to the home of the official RPM Package Manager (RPM) code base!
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http://rpm5.org/
Install .rpm Files in Debian and Ubuntu
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| Some time you might find some applications are having only .rpm files but
| you want a .deb package for your debian,Ubuntu and other debian derived
| ditributions.If you can?t find .deb debian package in any of the
| debian,ubuntu repositories or elsewhere, you can use the alien
| package converter to install the .rpm file.
|
| Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp,
| and slackware tgz file formats. If you want to use a package from
| another distribution than the one you have installed on your system, you
| can use alien to convert it to your preferred package format and install
| it.
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http://www.debianadmin.com/install-rpm-files-in-debian-and-ubuntu.html
Fedora Project to Help Revitalize RPM
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| The Fedora Project has announced plans to revitalize RPM, the package
| manager used by many Linux distros.
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http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/15/040258&from=rss
The future of RPM
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| We wanted to make sure those parties agreed that this was the right
| thing to do for their respective communities. We touched base with
| some of these people at the recent LSB conference, and the
| overwhelming community opinion there was in favor of what we are
| outlining here.
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http://www.linuxlookup.com/2006/dec/14/the_future_of_rpm
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