For installing KPackage you need:
Qt2 and KDE 2 CVS
For listing Debian packages no other software is needed but to install and unistall the packages you need:
the DPKG package manager
For BSD packages you need the package management programs:
pkg_info
pkg_add
pkg_delete
For Slackware packages you need:
installpkg
removepkg
For dealing with Redhat packages you need:
RPM and RPM-DEVEL: 3.0
the same libraries as compiling RPM does. These are:
libdb - the Berkeley database library
libz and libz-dev - compression library
RPM requires the gettext routine which is found in libc6 or in libintl
RPM 3.0 may require the popt package
For KPackage to work correctly with RPM packages the RPM database must be initialized. If typing `rpm -qa' gives an error about `unable to open....` then try `rpm --rebuilddb'.