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Ximian Red Carpet Daemon Prerelease

Red Carpet
Red Carpet

Ximian is now conducting an open pre-release testing period for the Red Carpet Daemon (rcd) and Red Carpet command-line client (rc). This document explains what the two programs are, and guides you through installation, basic use, and providing feedback to us here at Ximian. For in-depth documentation, we have written man pages. To read them, install the software, then open a terminal and type man rc or man rcd.

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Why not use apt for rpm?

Sounds like a case of NIH. Now that apt is available for .deb and .rpm I think red-carpet should just be a from end to apt.

In particular its easy for sysadmins to set up their own apt repository, but as far as I can tell its not possible to do this with red-carpet without paying Ximian.

BTW I've been using apt-rpm for a while now. Its great. I was able to upgrade RH7.1 to 7.3 with it.