John, Does this mean that I can install an alternate package manager on RH rather than its own RHPM app? I was under the impression that RH, Mandrake, etc could only use rpms and Debian, etc could only use .deb files. Thanks, Cleve
> RPM can do a lot of things, such as display a list of > dependencies, etc. See the man page or: > > http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/. > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/RPM-for-Unix-HOWTO-8.html > > RPM is not the best software package manager IMHO, but > it was the first. You may want to check out and > compare other software package managers such as > apt-get from the Debian project. > > http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/apt.html > http://bazar.conectiva.com.br/~godoy/apt-howto > > John Hebert > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
