On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:45:45PM -0500, Joe Landman wrote: > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] centos5 as cluster os > Tim Cutts wrote:
> >apt-file : not installed by default, but phenomenally useful - it's dpkg > >-S for stuff that isn't installed yet. So if you want to ask "what > >package do I need to install to supply this obscure header file", > >apt-file can tell you. > > Will have to play with it. Those are good hints... Debian and Ubuntu have excellent package management functionality and and repositories (as good or better than any other major Linux or Unix distribution, AFAIK), but strangely, by default they have no consistent API or command set for using it. Therefore, I recommend trying out wajig: sudo apt-get install wajig http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Wajig_Overview.html It's really just a wrapper (in Python) around all the same underlying command-line tools, but in my limited use of it so far, it seems noticeably more convenient than the traditional bizarre, non-orthogonal mishmash of apt-get, dpkg, apt-cache, apt-file, etc. (I don't know if/how it compares to aptitude, I've never used that.) The Debian package management tools don't seem to have any sane programming API, but so far I haven't really needed that (and wajig manages to do without). Their only other major flaw that I'm aware of, is that, just like all the rpm based tools, you can only have one single version of a binary package installed at a time (yuck!). Perhaps one day, the sort of tools the NixOS and DragonFly BSD folks are working on will fix that. http://nix.cs.uu.nl/index.html http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2176 http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/goals.shtml#packages -- Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.piskorski.com/ _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
