Suse 8.0 I can't speak highly enough of apt-get It makes for a big increased productivity. If you run your own linux box in a small business it will keep you working. With the Synaptic front end you can select packages to update very easily. If you do not have unlimited bandwidth you can check the size of downloads as well. I tend to go for the small (size) packages where I can. If you are a system administrator, then having apt-get on the Linux boxes you are administering will make a hell of a difference in updating and maintaining them. Potentially the time savings will be huge. Occassionaly you may require a package that is not available for apt-get. I have got the latest Nvidia driver rpm's installed using the rpm installer. Apt-get seems to have tolerated this ok. (I would caution against this though) There is one trade-off. Apt-get is not bleeding edge. But for work you do not want this. You want stability. You may have to wait for some packages to be available as well - but it is worth the wait. This is a great facility for people new to Linux and Suse. I hope it will go straight into the next distro. Brian Marr
Dear Brian, Perhaps you can be persuaded to write a micro-HowTo for the List? It should only cover getting APT-Get and Synaptic and setting them up. Please? PeterB On Friday 30 August 2002 19:59, Brian Marr wrote:
Suse 8.0 I can't speak highly enough of apt-get
It makes for a big increased productivity. If you run your own linux box in a small business it will keep you working. With the Synaptic front end you can select packages to update very easily. If you do not have unlimited bandwidth you can check the size of downloads as well. I tend to go for the small (size) packages where I can.
If you are a system administrator, then having apt-get on the Linux boxes you are administering will make a hell of a difference in updating and maintaining them. Potentially the time savings will be huge.
Occassionaly you may require a package that is not available for apt-get. I have got the latest Nvidia driver rpm's installed using the rpm installer. Apt-get seems to have tolerated this ok. (I would caution against this though)
There is one trade-off. Apt-get is not bleeding edge. But for work you do not want this. You want stability. You may have to wait for some packages to be available as well - but it is worth the wait.
This is a great facility for people new to Linux and Suse. I hope it will go straight into the next distro.
Brian Marr
i wanted to thank Richard Bos for walking me through my trials and tribulations with apt-get. Also i think a How-to on the subject would be very helpful for newbies like myself, and also for people who have never used apt-get or synaptic. Once again thanks Richard, who might be of help if the how to gets going. franklin On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 21:07, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
Dear Brian,
Perhaps you can be persuaded to write a micro-HowTo for the List? It should only cover getting APT-Get and Synaptic and setting them up.
Please?
PeterB
On Friday 30 August 2002 19:59, Brian Marr wrote:
Suse 8.0 I can't speak highly enough of apt-get
It makes for a big increased productivity. If you run your own linux box in a small business it will keep you working. With the Synaptic front end you can select packages to update very easily. If you do not have unlimited bandwidth you can check the size of downloads as well. I tend to go for the small (size) packages where I can.
If you are a system administrator, then having apt-get on the Linux boxes you are administering will make a hell of a difference in updating and maintaining them. Potentially the time savings will be huge.
Occassionaly you may require a package that is not available for apt-get. I have got the latest Nvidia driver rpm's installed using the rpm installer. Apt-get seems to have tolerated this ok. (I would caution against this though)
There is one trade-off. Apt-get is not bleeding edge. But for work you do not want this. You want stability. You may have to wait for some packages to be available as well - but it is worth the wait.
This is a great facility for people new to Linux and Suse. I hope it will go straight into the next distro.
Brian Marr
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Peter, you can find the howto at http://linx01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm It's the howto you described. If you want a more detailed one, execute: apt-get install apt-howto :) Op zaterdag 31 augustus 2002 03:07, schreef Peter B Van Campen:
Dear Brian,
Perhaps you can be persuaded to write a micro-HowTo for the List? It should only cover getting APT-Get and Synaptic and setting them up.
Please?
PeterB
On Friday 30 August 2002 19:59, Brian Marr wrote:
Suse 8.0 I can't speak highly enough of apt-get
It makes for a big increased productivity. If you run your own linux box in a small business it will keep you working. With the Synaptic front end you can select packages to update very easily. If you do not have unlimited bandwidth you can check the size of downloads as well. I tend to go for the small (size) packages where I can.
If you are a system administrator, then having apt-get on the Linux boxes you are administering will make a hell of a difference in updating and maintaining them. Potentially the time savings will be huge.
Occassionaly you may require a package that is not available for apt-get. I have got the latest Nvidia driver rpm's installed using the rpm installer. Apt-get seems to have tolerated this ok. (I would caution against this though)
There is one trade-off. Apt-get is not bleeding edge. But for work you do not want this. You want stability. You may have to wait for some packages to be available as well - but it is worth the wait.
This is a great facility for people new to Linux and Suse. I hope it will go straight into the next distro.
Brian Marr
-- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
Hi ya Peter, I used the apt-get howto as well. It covers things in more detail than I could. I will continue to contribute where I can. Brian Marr On Sunday 01 September 2002 04:23, Richard Bos wrote:
Peter,
you can find the howto at http://linx01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm It's the howto you described. If you want a more detailed one, execute: apt-get install apt-howto :)
Op zaterdag 31 augustus 2002 03:07, schreef Peter B Van Campen:
Dear Brian,
Perhaps you can be persuaded to write a micro-HowTo for the List? It should only cover getting APT-Get and Synaptic and setting them up. Please?
PeterB
On Friday 30 August 2002 19:59, Brian Marr wrote:
Suse 8.0 I can't speak highly enough of apt-get
It makes for a big increased productivity. If you run your own linux box in a small business it will keep you working. With the Synaptic front end you can select packages to update very easily. If you do not have unlimited bandwidth you can check the size of downloads as well. I tend to go for the small (size) packages where I can.
If you are a system administrator, then having apt-get on the Linux boxes you are administering will make a hell of a difference in updating and maintaining them. Potentially the time savings will be huge.
Occassionaly you may require a package that is not available for apt-get. I have got the latest Nvidia driver rpm's installed using the rpm installer. Apt-get seems to have tolerated this ok. (I would caution against this though)
There is one trade-off. Apt-get is not bleeding edge. But for work you do not want this. You want stability. You may have to wait for some packages to be available as well - but it is worth the wait.
This is a great facility for people new to Linux and Suse. I hope it will go straight into the next distro.
Brian Marr
Brian, :)) But did you mail your feedback to feedback@suse.com, or use: http://www.suse.de/cgi-bin/feedback.cgi (I think that's the one suse prefers). Op zaterdag 31 augustus 2002 02:59, schreef Brian Marr:
Suse 8.0 I can't speak highly enough of apt-get
It makes for a big increased productivity. If you run your own linux box in a small business it will keep you working. With the Synaptic front end you can select packages to update very easily. If you do not have unlimited bandwidth you can check the size of downloads as well. I tend to go for the small (size) packages where I can.
If you are a system administrator, then having apt-get on the Linux boxes you are administering will make a hell of a difference in updating and maintaining them. Potentially the time savings will be huge.
Occassionaly you may require a package that is not available for apt-get. I have got the latest Nvidia driver rpm's installed using the rpm installer. Apt-get seems to have tolerated this ok. (I would caution against this though)
There is one trade-off. Apt-get is not bleeding edge. But for work you do not want this. You want stability. You may have to wait for some packages to be available as well - but it is worth the wait.
This is a great facility for people new to Linux and Suse. I hope it will go straight into the next distro.
Brian Marr
-- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
On Sunday 01 September 2002 04:25, Richard Bos wrote:
Brian,
:)) But did you mail your feedback to feedback@suse.com, or use:
http://www.suse.de/cgi-bin/feedback.cgi (I think that's the one suse prefers).
Thanks for the link. I have posted to feedback. One would think that apt-get may be valuable to the "United Linux" proposal - due to its universal appeal. Brian Marr
Op zaterdag 31 augustus 2002 02:59, schreef Brian Marr:
Suse 8.0 I can't speak highly enough of apt-get
It makes for a big increased productivity. If you run your own linux box in a small business it will keep you working. With the Synaptic front end you can select packages to update very easily. If you do not have unlimited bandwidth you can check the size of downloads as well. I tend to go for the small (size) packages where I can.
If you are a system administrator, then having apt-get on the Linux boxes you are administering will make a hell of a difference in updating and maintaining them. Potentially the time savings will be huge.
Occassionaly you may require a package that is not available for apt-get. I have got the latest Nvidia driver rpm's installed using the rpm installer. Apt-get seems to have tolerated this ok. (I would caution against this though)
There is one trade-off. Apt-get is not bleeding edge. But for work you do not want this. You want stability. You may have to wait for some packages to be available as well - but it is worth the wait.
This is a great facility for people new to Linux and Suse. I hope it will go straight into the next distro.
Brian Marr
Op zaterdag 31 augustus 2002 02:59, schreef Brian Marr:
There is one trade-off. Apt-get is not bleeding edge. But for work you do
What do you mean it is not bleeding edge? You can (apt-)get mozilla-1.1 and apt-get-0.5.4 by including the line: rpm http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/apt SuSE/8.0/i386 unstable into the sources.list file. You're bleeding edge. If now the administrator of http://mitglied.lycos.de/lashtal/ made an apt repository out of his rpm repository, you can get bleeding edge kde package via apt.... I think that gnome2 is not available via YOU, it is via apt...
not want this. You want stability. You may have to wait for some packages to be available as well - but it is worth the wait.
-- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
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