[plug] Red Hat package management

[Lawrie Abbott]

Derek Fountain wrote:

>On Monday 24 November 2003 15:59, Craig Ringer wrote:
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>>>I get the impression I'm missing something. I asked on the surprisingly
>>>unhelpful #RedHat channel on freenode and was basically told that people
>>>install apt-get for rpm. Is that really the only solution?
>>>      
>>>
>>Yes, sadly. Fedora's up2date supports apt and yum repositories however,
>>so that /has/ been fixed. At long last.
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>Thanks for the info. Now I understand why people moan so much about RPM and 
>why they like apt-get so much. Without the layer of intelligence supplied by 
>SUSE and, it appears, Mandrake, it's hopelessly difficult and inconvenient to 
>use. I'd completely taken the dependency sorting features of YaST for granted 
>over the last few years. I'm amazed that RedHat has done as well as it has 
>given this embarassing hole in its feature set.
>
>  
>
>>>What do RHL users
>>>on this list do to get packages quickly and easily installed?
>>>      
>>>
>>apt-get seems to be the way to go.
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>
>I'll see what's involved in getting it to work. I wanted to learn the benefits 
>of apt via debian, but debian proved to be a lot of hard work to install, let 
>alone learn from.
>
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I use RH9 , apt and synaptic.   Apt/Synaptic combination seems to 
identify and download dependencies Ok but occasionally seems to stuff up 
the install for some reason and I end up rpm -i ing the packages 
manually from the download cache.

Cheers
Lawrie Abbott

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