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rpm2html : a generator of Web pages for RPM packages</title>
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<h1 align=center>rpm2html : a generator of <a
href="http://www.w3.org/">Web</a> pages for <a
href="http://www.rpm.org/">RPM</a>packages</h1>
<h1 align=center><a href="/linux/RPM/Applications_Publishing.html"><img
src="screen.jpg" alt="Small rpm2html page dump" height="256" width="366">
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<p align=center><IMG src="/cgi-bin/count2?rpm2html" alt="Access count" height="19"
width="112"></p>
<h2>Goal</h2>
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<strong>rpm2html</strong> generate automatically Web pages describing a set of
<a href="http://www.rpm.org/">RPM</a> packages. Preliminary results obtained
by running it on a local mirror of Redhat distribution and the RedHat
contrib directores are available. SuSE-5.1 RPM packages have been added
as well a XFree86 updates from SuSE, especially useful for the new chipsets.</p>
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The goal of rpm2html is also to identify the dependancies between various
packages, and being able to find the packages providing the ressources needed
to install another package. Every package is analyzed to retrieve its
dependancies and the ressources it offers. These relationship are expressed
using hyperlinks in the the generated pages. Finding the package providing the
ressource you need is just a matter of a few clicks!</p>
<h2><a href="/linux/RPM">Try it !</a></h2>
<p>
Here is the <a href="/linux/RPM">result of this indexing</a> for approximately
4300 RPMs.</p>
<p>
<img src="french.gif" alt="image: french.gif "> Here is the same <a
href="/linux/RPM-FR">result of this indexing</a> using French
localization.
Check also the fully translated French version of Redhat-5.0 done by
<a href="http://www.linux-kheops.com/pub/rh50/RPMs/">Kheops</a>.</p>
<p>rpm2html is also available in <a href="http://keynes.cti.unav.es/eurielec/">
Spain</a>.</p>
<h2>Sources</h2>
<p>
<img src="new.gif" alt="image: new.gif ">The sources of <a
href="ftp://rufus.w3.org/pub/rpm2html/rpm2html-0.50.tar.gz">rpm2html-0.50</a>
are available. This software is released under the GPL, use free software!</p>
<h2>History</h2>
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Version 0.50 add recursion in RPM storage, and Spanish language support.</p>
<p>
Version 0.40 add multi architecture support, help rendering of big tables,
and correct bugs, of course!</p>
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Version 0.30 add navigation links on top of pages and correct a few bugs.</p>
<p>
Version 0.25 clean up the mess with config files and add proper support for
multiple architectures. <strong>NOTE: some of the configuration name semantic
have changed, you need to reedit them</strong> (especially
<strong>url</strong> and <strong>mirror</strong> fields). <strong>Read the
PRINCIPLES file</strong> in the distribution to learn more about rpm2html
algorithms and how to configure your config file(s).</p>
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Version 0.20 Added features are colorization, localization and possibility to
dump the actual installed base of RPM on the local machine.</p>
<p>
The ultimate commodity is ensured by indexing this set of pages, allowing to
find instantaneously packages providing the some functionnalities (as long as
the package maintainer has properly commented the RPM).</p>
<h2>Feedback</h2>
<p>
I am looking for other sites to provide the same service, <a
href="http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pkglist/rhl-intel/">RedHat uses it</a>
to advertize the packages that will be shipped in the version 5.0, I hope
others will follow and that this service will be provided worldwide.</p>
<h2>Links</h2>
<p>
Three other good directories for Linux applications are:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://www.linuxhq.com/lsm/">The linux file archive browser</a> :
a principle similar to rpm2html, but they extract the informations from
the .lsm files, yet another good stuff from LinuxHQ people's.
<li>
<a href="http://sal.kachinatech.com/">SAL</a> : focusing on Scientific
Applications for Linux
<li>
The <a href="http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml">Linux Applications
and Utilities Page</a> has been around for a long time.
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Enjoy !</p>
<p>
Daniel</p>
<P><A HREF="http://validator.w3.org/"><IMG BORDER=0
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<p>
<a href="mailto:veillard@w3.org">Daniel Veillard</a>, Thu Nov 13 00:09:11 EST
1997</p>
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