On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 13:16 -0400, Mike wrote:
On April 28, 2005 10:32 am, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
"Not so with Suse. You download a program, extract it yourself and, if you are lucky, you can then use something called Yast to do it all for you. "
Apt-get takes care of the whole thing one site no mess no fuss
BZZT! Try again. Learning apt-get is NOT a "no mess no fuss" thing. I just did it, and it took me a couple of hours to soak the whole thing up and get it running the way I wanted on SuSE 9.3, and I've been running Linux for over 10 years. Then it corrupted my RPM database. Twice. Now look, I'm not saying that there isn't some advantage to such a setup, but until SuSE makes it their official way of distributing packages, it's just not going to be easy. No matter how you slice it, installing software on Windows is easier. HOWEVER, having said that, try UNinstalling it, or try getting it to actually do what you want, and not a dozen other things you don't. There's a big difference after the fact, and that should be pointed out as well. But don't say apt3rpm is easy. Regards, dk