Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (151 mails)

[Richard Atcheson <ratcheson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 14 December 2003 06:46 am, Jean-Marc Autexier wrote:
> maybe this will help you in the future: http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/
>
> Apt4rpm is a meta directory of rpm packages. It allows you to easilly
> install new software and takes care about dependencies between packages.
> Apt is a command line tool, but with Synaptic you also have a nice MMI.
>
> Here are the results from apt search:
>
> picasso:/home/jmau # apt search network traffic
> iptraf - TCP/IP Network Monitor
> libnids - A Network Intrusion Detection System library
> mrtg - The Multi Router Traffic Grapher
> netacct - Network Accounting
> ntop - Web-Based Network Traffic Monitor
> routed - Routing daemon which maintains routing tables
> tleds - Indicate network traffic via Keyboard LEDs
> traffic-vis - Network Traffic Analysis Suite
> vtun - Virtual Tunnel Client/Server
> xnetload - This program displays network traffic and uptime for the network
>
> Installation with apt is easy,just type "apt install iptraf". All dependend
> packages are downloaded and installed. That's it.
>

Thanks  Jean-Marc.  I have become a real believer in Apt in the past year or 
so.  Following Richard Bos' advice to limit the repository to such proven 
places as ulb, suser-rbos, packman, as well as the basic needs, I have 
greatly reduced my frustration level after an upgrade.  

Installing such things as MozillaFirebird and MPlayer and transcode were a 
dream! And just now I upgraded iptraf using the single command apt install 
iptraf.

I was apprehensive about using the new apt script because the instructions 
were rather cryptic and sometimes these new things bite me very strongly on 
the ass.  Not this time.  I would suggest to Richard that the Suse Apt 
instructions be modified slightly to tell the other cowards like me that 
using the command 'apt' is simple and not to be feared.   An example could 
be: to upgrade an installed app, simply type apt install <nameofApp> and it 
will be upgraded.  

BTW, upgrading a single app via apt is not all that intuitive.  If you read 
the man page it appears you should type apt upgrade <nameofApp>.  Didnt work!  
it still wants to upgrade everything that is installed.   Not a big deal but 
could create problems for someone who fails to read all the stuff between 
upgrade and yes.

Anyway, thanks for the network stuff list.  I'm putting together an old laptop 
as my router and will be using some of those command line things.  Once it is 
going I need to figure out how to administer it from this machine.  There's 
always something going on with Linux, isn't there?

Regards,
Richard