Where would one be able to get apt-get for an rpm distro (e.g. SuSE)? TIA Curtis :) On Sunday 23 December 2001 17:51, Joshua Lee wrote:
On Sunday 23 December 2001 06:02 pm, Duraid wrote:
but yast refuses to connect to any other directory other than /pub/suse/i386/current. when i tried to connect to /pub/suse/i386/update/7.3 it didn't connect. that means i have to look for the rpms manually which is hard and doesn't resolve dependancies. how do you update your packages?
Well, luckily a lot of times there are no dependencies; and anything that has dependencies from the SuSE mirrors has dependencies that are resolveable with files findable on the same site. That's as good as it gets with rpm. Apt-get, the other Linux package management sysem that resolves dependencies on the fly, doesn't have those problems but it has others (the biggest one being that it's part of Debian. ;-) )
Luckily, I bought SuSE 7.3 Professional when I upgraded from Personal so I don't have to worry anymore about the vageries of downloading most of the packages I need, a pain at 56kbps; except updates which are downloadable with YAST Online Update. :-) I noticed now I can even upgrade KDE with online update, the sort of thing you really need a fancy package manager for. Thanks SuSE! :-)