For listing Debian packages no other software is
needed but to install and unistall the packages you need:
the DPKG package manager installed
For BSD packages you need the package management
programs:
pkg_info
pkg_add
pkg_delete
For Slackware pakages you need:
installpkg
removepkg
For dealing with Redhat packages you need:
RPM and RPM-DEVEL: 2.3,
2.4 or 3.0
the same libraries as compiling RPM requires. These
are:
libdb - the Berkeley database library
libz and libz-dev - compression library
Later versions of RPM require the gettext routine
which is found in libc6 or in libintl
RPM 3.0 may require the popt package
Also, for kpackage to work correctly with RPM packages
the RPM database must be initialised. If typing `rpm -qa' gives an error
about `unable to open....` then try `rpm --rebuilddb'.
2.3 Compilation and installation
In order to compile and install Kpackage on your
system, type the following in the base directory of the kpackage distribution:
% ./configure
% make
% make install
It may be necessary to set QTDIR and KDEDIR to indicate
where that software is installed. Since Kpackage uses autoconf
you should not have too much trouble compiling it. .