Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3863 mails)

[Richard Bos <radoeka@xxxxxxxxx>]

Op maandag 2 februari 2004 18:25, schreef Tom Nielsen:
> On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 23:27, Richard Bos wrote:
> > If you're lucky it can be a single command (though most of the times more
> > are needed):
> > http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/kde31to32.html
> >
> > --
> > Richard Bos
>
> I wasn't so lucky with synaptic. I'm not sure if just running apt
> instead would have been more fruitful. Some files downloaded some
> didn't. When I make the change on my work system, I'm just going to
> download all one-by-one and install that way.
>
> Tom

Than do yourself a favour and use apt to assist.  Have apt _only_ download the 
necessary rpms for you and just you install them manually.  The 2 things to 
know for this are:
use apt with the '-d' argument: download only.  The rpms are downloaded 
in /var/cache/apt/archives.  At this point just use rpm, yast, kpackage or 
whatever other tool you like to install the packages.

BTW: I myself prefer command line apt over synaptic.  It gives much more 
control to the user, at least that  is my experience.

-- 
Richard Bos
Without a home the journey is endless