On Wednesday 18 August 2004 16:27, Michael Walters wrote: > Hello All, > > I was wondering about the differences between Libranet Debian and generic > Debian. I believe that Synaptic is a proprietary Libranet specific Debian > upgrade tool. > > I have Libranet 2.6 and was wondering if on my next upgrade I might use > Debian aptitude instead of libranet synaptic. I had a bad experience with > synaptic recently and was wondering what my options are. > > The bad experience that I had with synaptic was an attempt to upgrade > realplayer pluggin which broke my mozilla browser. I think it took me two > weeks to fix my mozilla browser with a lot of help from the Calgary Linux > Users' Group clug-talk. I ended up using aptitude which seems no harder to > use than synaptic. > > I am not trying to start a flame war. I just think I might be interested in > having a little more flexibility by going generic Debian rather than > Libranet. > > Cheers, > > Michael Walters > > Further comment, On looking back through the posts on this topic I have formed the opinion ( it is only an opinion and not very expert one ) that your troubles stemmed from mixing 2 types of installation or update mechanisms. i.e. apt-get/synaptic and RPMs. I may have got completely the wrong end of the stick and am just muddying the water further, if so I apologize. My own experience trying to use apt4rpm on SuSE has convinced me of the advice on the apt4rpm website, if you are going to do it start with a clean install and don't mix and match.
My $0.02 Graham _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
