On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 14:22, Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 07:42:16AM -0400, James Knott wrote:
What is the "official" command line tool to install packages on suse?
I know there are apt, smart, zypper and maybe even more. But I'd like to know which one is the "official" tool that is installed by default on every suse system.
Last I heard, rpm was still there.
Will rpm manage multiple repositories and automatically resolve and install all package dependencies for me? What I am looking for is something like apt. I know there is apt for suse, but AFAIK, this is not officially supported and one can not expect that it is available on every suse install. No, that is not the purpose of rpm but it is the only one guaranteed to be on every SUSE install. You will need to investigate how you are going script this. Zypper might be on all recent SUSE installs but that is not guaranteed.
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