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Hi, I would like to solicit opinions concerning updates in Debian (.deb) vs Red Hat (.rpm). Pewrmit me an anecdote. I recently wanted to install SGML tools, v 2.x. Using an RPM package, this failed because of unmet "dependencies." The version I was trying to install required a version of GLIBC 2.0 that I do not have ( I use Red Hat 5.0 ) and Python 1.5 - I have Python 1.4. When I installed Python 1.5, a number of existent apps broke that required Python 1.4 and associated apps like "TLinker." This is obviously very frustrating. Is the upgrade process in Debian - using apt-get I presume - generally easier ? I'll move to Debian if accomplishing updates/ upgrades is simpler and more reliable. I'd appreciate any general comments. Thanks, Howard Mann. Geocrawler.com - The Knowledge Archive
