Using suse 10.0 rpms on suse 9 368

In comp.os.linux.misc, on Wed 08 February 2006 12:28, Horacio

Yes there is, but you need to be sure you know what you are doing - especially as SUSE 9.0 is no longer supported. Watch out for dependency conflicts that will break your earlier-version software.

If you install RPMS from a different version, even on a supported release, you will not get the security fixes automatically. Although since you are on an unsupported version, you will already need to apply security patches manually.

Do you have a particular reason for not wanting to use a supported release of SUSE Linux?

You can, but unless you know what you are doing, you should not.

Again it is *possible*, but there can be all sorts of problems, Red Hat and the like may not conform to the latest standard filesystem hierarchy so your non-native RPM may look for installed packages in non-existent directories.

Yes there is, but it does not necessarily solve the dependencies for you.

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