On Friday 15 April 2005 08:52, David Krider wrote:
Sunny wrote:
Why not try using apt for SuSE? In the repository there are a lot of "extra" stuff, including all multimedia packages from packman, current application versions (not patches to the shipped ones), etc.
I had heard about this, but had, up till now, steered clear because of how much of a kludge it sounded like it was. Now that I've seen that page, I'm even more convinced. That's an enormous amount of info to absorb about the process. People frequently complain about RPM (ok, maybe it's just Debian people), but I've never had a whole lot of trouble with it. Apt is supposed to be great and all, but that page proves just how complicated it is.
Bottom line this for: are a lot of people really using this and NOT having problems? Or is this stuff just as tricky as it sounds? Anyone? If it's reasonable, I could definitely see using it. If it's hit-and-miss, well, I'll probably still at least try it... ;-)
Thanks, dk
I have used apt and its GUI synaptic for years. I couple of days ago I updated both my linux 9.2 boxes (about 6 or 7 hundred packages) using apt. It all went very well. I have had problems in the past but not many and all solved. Apt is worth the effort to learn. Jerome