Installing non-standard/proprietary software

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Hallo,

I’m new to Calculate Linux and don’t have any experience neither with CL nor with Gentoo. CL seems very interesting to me.

But there are some commercial software packages I would like to use: VMware Workstation, TurboPrint, TheBrain, BRU Server, XMind and others. Often the vendors offer rpm, deb, tar.gz or sh packages for download.

Is it possible to install these non-standard or proprietary packages from external sources in Calculate Linux or would it break the system and lead to problems when updating libraries and other components?

Thanks for any help.

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Hi,

I don’t know for all but for VMWare, it works.
If rpm are all in one (no dependencies) you can install rpm packages if you install RPM on calculate.