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From: Guest on 7 May 2008 14:42


"les" <idea(a)localnet.com> wrote in message
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> Hello...
> As a newbie, this might be a silly question.
> I bought several live Linux distros, and have settled on 2 that
> I like, and installed PCLinux, but like some apps on Knoppix,
> in particular WaveMon and Airsnort.
> My questions is, is there a way to transport these apps into
> PCLinux from the other live CD and have it work?
> I'm not familiar enough with the underpinnings of Linux to
> understand if and how it could be done, if at all.
>
> Thank you.
> Les
>
>

Each distribution has its own package management system and way of creating
binary packages of software
for installation.. RedHat uses RPM binaries, Debian uses Deb binaries,
Slackware uses TGZ binaries.
PCLinuxOS uses the RPM package management system. There are over 7500
packages available for PCLinuxOS
and you can download and install them via the Synaptic package manager that
comes with your distribution.
Packages are stored in browseable repositories. So fire up Synaptic and
have a look around.

This link will get you started : http://docs.pclinuxos.com/Repositories

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