On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:46:12AM -0500, Tom Duerbusch wrote: > Now I think I know what apt-get does. It seems to be a Debian version > of RPM (for Redhat and Suse), which, I think, YaST is a nice shell > around RPM (for Suse users). > > So apt-get and RPM are command line versions with YaST being an > interactive frontend.
apt-get is a bit higher-level than RPM; the RPM equivalent on Debian is dpkg. apt-get is a command-line front-end to dpkg. aptitude and dselect are interactive text-mode front-ends, probably closer to YaST (though I've never used it). -- - mdz
