Re: [suse-kde] Installing KDE 3.2 under SuSE 9
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 12 February 2004 04:57 pm, William Lugg wrote:
Can you tell me more about apt/synaptic? I've not heard of this before. Is it an alternative to YaST.
In my case yes, I rarely ever use yast any more, one of the reasons is that it tends to download patches (which "should" take less time than full packages) Apt4SuSE lets you download either patches or fully updated files. I've always commented out the patch sources though and installed full packages so I don't really know how well that part works. One problem that you may have if you have been using yast previously is that apt may be confused about the installed version of a program due to the patch vs full package difference so your initial setup could be slightly complicated. Synaptic is a front end to Apt4SuSE (apt4rpm) that allows you to select fresh packages to install as well as updates. Read the installation info carefully, its not as difficult to setup as it may seem at first. Once setup its very dependable and easy to use. The only advantage I see with yast is that it automatically runs SuSEconfig after installing the programs while with Synaptic I need to run the command myself. Most info you need can be found at http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ HTH - -- dh Don't shop at ZipZoomFly.com (GoogleGear.com!) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFALRpKBwgxlylUsJARAqjMAJ46Ehz53IwSUJT///1hchz37co0PQCeL8KC 7LLHFc45yWM9SRFVjx3FfI8= =Ob/I -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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David Herman