On Friday 08 November 2002 16.58, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I was having some problems with KDE and it looked like I had all the KDE related files installed. To double check I went to YAST2 to see what was missing. I noticed that the files on YAST2 were different from that on Synaptic. My questions are:
Are the two programs supposed to share the same package database?
That depends on a) what you mean, and b) how you configured apt. apt and yast will both know about what's installed on your system, but as far as what's available to install it can vary wildly. YaST only knows about what's in the distribution, while apt picks packages from several different sources. If you installed from CD/DVD it's even worse, since yast will only know about the packages on the CD/DVD, while apt by default looks at suse's ftp server, where the packages all have higher build numbers, so one of the two tools, depending on which you used last, will think almost nothing of what's available is installed.
If I'm using Synaptic, should I ever use YAST2?
Probably not
If I have 75,000miles on my truck, should I switch to 10-40 weight oil?
Sell it or trade it in for a SUV Anders