On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 09:32, Alaa The Great wrote: > On 18 Jan 2003 03:46:40 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Me too!! Started w/ Mandrake, but when RPM Hell bit me one too > > many times, I made the jump... > > I started with debian (potato) freaked out, moved to mandrake and now > I just moved back to debian last week, and I have to say that I miss > it very much. > > I never had these RPM problems, just stick to using URPMI isntead of > plain old rpm (urpmi is like apt-get and rpm is like dpkg) and never > ever install rpms made for other distros, if you need packages not > found on your CDs just add a contrib source to urpmi or compile it > yourself, thats the trick. > > you won't regret using mandrake but I'll expect you to be back to > debian sooner or later.
I never could get urpmi to work right. I was back in the 7.2-8.0 days. Note that since apt & dpkg came 1st, urpmi & rpm are like them, not vice versa... Having Mdk as a first exposure to Linux was invaluable to me, because it installed very easy, and rpm is simple, so that I wasn't overwhelmed by apt-*. I can't see myself ever going back... -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Basically, I got on the plane with a bomb. Basically, I | | tried to ignite it. Basically, yeah, I intended to damage | | the plane." | | RICHARD REID, who tried to blow up American Airlines | | Flight 63 | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
