# Packages other than RPM packages

This section discusses packaging documents for distribution through the RPM Package Manager. However, when you use the $ `publican package` command, Publican generates a tarball that you can use to build a package to distribute through different package manager software. If you run `publican package` on a computer on which rpmbuild is not installed, Publican still generates the tarball, even though it cannot then generate an RPM package from that tarball.