Re: what Linux versions work with IFC 8.0?

From: TimC (tconnors_at_no.astro.spam.swin.accepted.edu.here.au)
Date: 01/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 01:08:13 GMT

Daniel Grimwood (aka Bruce) was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> Jason Nielsen <jdn@cs.sfu.ca> wrote:
>> I find this pretty annoying.... apparently Intel believes everyone and
>> there dog using linux is using an rpm based distribution. It might be
>> something along the lines of 70/30 but still they should have a generic
>> installer like Lahey or any of the other compiler makers!
>
> I don't mind the rpms because they are easy to convert to .deb, and most
> distributions are covered by either rpm or deb. What annoys me is that
> you still have to use the install script for a simple upgrade when it
> should be as simple as "rpm -U". Either that or manually put in the
> installation path into all the installed scripts after a "rpm -U".

Sure, you can convert to deb, or just run it through rpm2cpio | cpio
-i, but you still need to fiddle the script to get rid of all the rpm
calls.

I don't really understand what the purpose of the script is. Don't
rpm's have postinstall scripts attached?

Or is this another reason why .deb is the superior format? :) 

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