[plug] Ubuntu on older 8.04 on older machines

[Kai]

Maybe I need to rephrase or explain a little further ?

apt-get is awesome, Synaptec is awesome. I want to download app 1, 2, 4 
and 4 so select them and "hey you also need app 5, 6, 7 and 8 to use 
this program" so we'll have them too.

RPM on the other hand...need app 1, download that rpm -i app1.rpm
failed, damn need app 2, go download appropriate version of that, 
install, hrmm, wait, four other dependencies need resolving first, go 
search for them but wait the other version of app 2 I installed is 
version s x.x.4 an I needed x.x.3 to be compatible with app3, but that 
doesn't work with app4 which requires..... blah blah

Admittedly it's been a while since I really did anything with servers, 
been focussing lots on college the last 1.5 year so my impressions may 
need refreshing somewhat.

Blake Munro wrote:
> I might be a little biased, but I use Red hat servers at work and Debian 
> based systems after hours, and I find the debian based package managers 
> faaaaaaar easier to use.
> Infact I hate yum, yast, any other package manager - i'm a pure apt-get boy.
> 
> I find that on redhat systems there are much less packages available in 
> total, therefore to the newbie linux user I would always suggest a 
> debian based system (ubuntu, knoppix, mint etc)
> 
> Blake
> 
> 2008/8/3 Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au 
> <mailto:meyerri at westnet.com.au>>
> 
> 
>     Dammit I hate this ... but WTF,
> 
>     Please explain how you equate Debian's package management to Red Hat's
>     RPMs. (I was trying to find equivalents, but it was like comparing the
>     manufacture of chamber pots to the mechanisms for removing the offending
>     vessel from the royal bed-chamber). They are different things for
>     goodness sake.

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