For listing Debian packages no other software is
needed but to install and unistall the packages you need:
the DPKG package manager installed
For dealing with Redhat packages you need:
RPM 2.3.4 or above
RPM-Devel 2.3.4 or above
Ithe same libraries as compiling rpm does. These
are:
libdb - the Berkley database library
libz and libz-dev - compression library
Later versions of RPM require the gettext routine
which is found in libc6 or in libintl
Also, for kpackage to work correctly with RPM packaages
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. .