[Gllug] RE: Gllug digest, Vol 1 #1660 - 10 msgs

[Stuart Children]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 02:10:41PM -0000, Jarvis, Richie wrote:
> Ok folks - i have been lurking (and occasionally posting) on here for a 
> while now - I keep seeing that (a) most of the regular posters use 
> Debian, and (b) they keep mentioning something called 'apt'.  Now - call 
> me a lazy barsteward - but I use redhat, and don't know wot apt is....

I'm sure others will give a good description of apt. This is probably a 
good place to start though: 
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html

Note that the apt backend has now been ported by Connectiva so that it 
works with rpm files (rather than dpkg ones). The homepage is at 
http://distro.conectiva.com/projetos/42/ If you want to get started using 
it on your RedHat system see either http://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/ or 
http://freshrpms.net/apt/ Works well on my 7.2 system. IMO other people 
may find Ximian's RedCarpet more useful (especially if they're already 
using that), or RedHat's up2date. They all offer slightly different things 
though.

HTH

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Stuart

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