[Gllug] Debian or Fedora

[Sharon Kimble]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 12:13:27 +0000
Ian Norton <bredroll at darkspace.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> i think there are two versions of what usually happens when installing
> stuff under debian or redhat.
> 
> 1.
> 
> # apt-get install mozilla
> bla bla. we need to download xxx/xxxmb yes/no?
> # ok
> ... wait ...
> done
> 
> 2.
> # rpm -ivh mozilla-browser-1.4.0-1.i386.rpm
> this depends on all this other crap, and im not going to tell you
> where to get them because the package names give no clue to the file
> ... rummage around rpmfind.net ...
> # rpm -ivh one-of-the-depending-packages.rpm
> this depends on all this other crap, and im not going to tell you
> where to get them because the package names give no clue to the file
> ... etc....
> 
> until very recent incantations of rpm systems, and the limited help of
> stuff like urpmi or apt-rpm i have always found there is too much
> manual donkey work associated with installing binary rpms. debian's
> pool and distro system really does have the right idea, if fedora uses
> debs then there is hope for them yet.
> 
> 
Ian.

And there is also yum for the Red Hat distros, in fact, it seems likely
that those following RHEL [White Box, Centos, Tao Linux] will also use
yum as their primary update means.

Sharon.
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