* Donald Henson (wepin@wepin.com) [031114 09:27]:
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 10:00, James Ogley wrote:
Ok. I'll do some studying on APT. Some comments I've seen indicate that it is fairly easy to do serious damage to an installation using APT. Is there anything special that I should be aware of?
Yes. Pay attention to what apt is going to do. It's output when you run it will tell you everything that it's doing. It's a nice tool but it's not a click, add and remove. Make sure that you put only the directories you need in the sources.list file so that you don't have apt uninstalling things you need and then putting alpha/beta versions of pkgs into your machine. My sources.list for 9.0 looks like this so far... rpm ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/ SuSE/9.0-i386 update security suser-rbos suser-tcousin usr-local-bin funktronics kde packman packman-i686 Do not put things like suse-people and mantel in the list as these are prime examples of test pkg directories. When SUSE posts 9.0 for ftp install then you'll probably only add the directory "base" to the above sources.list because base is the whole distro. This is good for when you try to install a pkg via apt and it has deps..it can automatically get them instead of you having to use the cd's. Check out apt4rpm.sourceforge.net and read up on it. :) Cheers! -- Ben Rosenberg ---===--- #147972 ---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.