Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Geoffrey
[03-11-05 07:57]: It could be that I'm learning something here. It's my understanding that apt is .deb based and does not properly deal with the rpm database. Is this wrong? Debian does not have an rpm database, and apt is a Debian tool.
apt *is* and debian rpm tool, apt4rpm is the suse version and uses the same procedures as yast, rpm.
The *difference* in utilizing apt (read apt4rpm) vs. yast is that apt takes the name of a packages and installs it *and* it's dependencies where yast will tell you that *you* need to install *dependencies* before you can install the package.
Actually, Yast will show you the necessary packages and ask you if you want to install them. There is a difference.
I drug my heels for several years before moving from yast to apt and cannot understand why. Apt makes things much easier, but there exist hangups for apt too and they are minor.
I've found Yast to be superior to any other software installation method. The closest thing to it is Mandrakes tool. The search mechanism in both is beyond compare. I don't know that apt has a similar tool. Red Hat sucks as it has nothing similar. -- Until later, Geoffrey