On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, CmdrRoot wrote:
> This may be a dumb question, but I just put up Mandrake 8 as a desktop
> machine and was wondering if there is a tool similar to apt-get for Red
> Hat based systems.

  There are plenty.  "I love standards -- so many to choose from!"

  Mandrake has some tools that will automatically check for/download/install
updates to the packaged provided with your Mandrake release.  I forget the
name, but I know it is featured prominently on their website somewhere.

  Also, look for a program called "rpmfind", which does a good job of
finding the package you are looking for, and a fair job of solving
dependencies.

  Connectivia (sp?) modified apt-get to use RPM as the backend.  No idea if
it works with Mandrake.

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