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[Oktay Altunergil]

When there's confusion, there should be some explanation.

binary : as in precompiled on a different box and ready to run on another
source : you do './configure && ./make && ./make install' yourself. Compiled on your box.
rpm    : a package format to make managing software easier. rpm's are esentially *binary* files that adhere to a specification. (i.e specs describe where the files go, what scripts are run during the install etc) Other examples of binary package management systems are Debian's .deb, Slackware's .tgz  etc.

There's yet another system where there's a package management system in place but the software is built from source on your own computer. (FreeBSD ports and Gentoo portage are examples of this)

Oktay

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:08:18 -0400
"P. Fawcett" <fawcett at bard.edu> wrote:

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> well i've certainly hit the admin confusion here, & prbly mismatches
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> since i've got apache & php installed via binary (or source - still
> confused on that) but mysql is rpm'd, 

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