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Packaging Systems
Different distributions use different packaging systems and as a general rule, a package intended for one distribution is not compatible with another distribution. Most distribu- tions fall into one of two camps of packaging technologies: the Debian “.deb” camp and the Red Hat “.rpm” camp. There are some important exceptions such as Gentoo, Slack- ware, and Arch, but most others use one of these two basic systems.
Packaging Systems
Table 14-1: Major Packaging System Families
Packaging System Distributions (Partial Listing)
Packaging System Distributions (Partial Listing)
Debian Style (.deb) Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Raspbian
Red Hat Style (.rpm) Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenSUSE
