> > As I said before APT is not at a similar level to RPM. It is comparable > to dpkg.
Do you mean that dpkg is comparable to rpm? IMHO, even dpkg is better than rpm, but that's me. Dependency resolving systems like APT work on top of the basic > package manager and query the dependency and fetch packages. As long as > the dependency information is specified in the package databases and > formats it doesnt matter whether the underlying system is dpkg or RPM. > APT itself has been ported to work with RPM for a long time though it > lacks multi arch capability amoung other things I know. In Fedora as an example yum is the right tool to use. <noflamebait> Does Fedora have yum installed by default? If so, the whole, long thread about rpm files not getting installed should not have happened. I was just trying to make the point that the package management provided by apt is lot better than what is available (or atleast visible) in Fedora. For people not inclined towards using the command prompt, synaptic provides a good GUI frontend to apt. I did not recommend Slack, because, let's face it, Slack really has no package management to speak of, IMHO. </noflamebait> Kaustubh -- One ring to rule them all, One ring to find them. One ring to bring them all, And in the darkness bind them. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
