Graham is quite right. I've used Synaptic a few times before on SuSE with apt4rpm for SuSE.
However, I much prefer the newer "apt" client written(?) by Richard Bos, as it has all the functionality I need and allows me greater flexibility (at least I find). Cheers! Chris On August 18, 2004 04:54 pm, Graham Monk wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > I don't think ( could well be wrong ) that synaptic is specific to > libranet, I believe I could even use it as a front end for apt4rpm > on my SuSE system. I have no view or knowledge one way or the other > as to which is better. I am pretty sure it is NOT proprietary. > > Graham > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
