Peanut - Slackware packages compatibility

[Pierre Lambion]

Hi all,

does any one have comments/experience on the compatiblity between peanut tar.bz2 packages and slackware tgz packages. I know this is basically the same compression method but what about libraries(both are glibc 2.1.x AFAIK), settings, ... ?
Is it save to drop Peanut pkgs on Slackware I saw they have Cups packaged, WordPerfect, ApplixWare and some other neat stuff that I'm tempted to test.

Pierre

[Death on Wheels]

No, they're not the same compression method. Also, .tar.bz2 is not unique to Peanut. bz2 is a compression algorithm that yields better compression ratios than the standard .gz or .Z; however, it is less widely used because (AFAIK) there is no open-source utility for managing these type of archives. It's safe to use them on any system; however, if you don't have the appropriate utility, you can't do anything with them.

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[Tigger]

Pierre - Peanut is based on Slackware so there shouldn't be any problems installing them on Slack but you will have to use the manual method of installing them and they will not show up in /var/log/packages. Basically Peanut packages are standard tar.bz2 packages without any special scripting inside(AFAIK). His alteration of 'mc' is what has the smarts in it.

If you move the peanut packages to / and then do the following, it will install them but they will not be on the package list.

bzcat package.tar.bz2 | tar xv

All peanut packages have a starting directory of '/' so if you accidentally install them from another directory, just move them to '/'.