No, apt-get only comes with Debian and Debian derived distributions (e.g.
Knoppix) . It relies on a repository format for holding all the DEB files
on central servers and Redhat and SuSE do not provide such repositories.
Apt-get removes what is for other distributions usualy a manual process -
dependancy resolution.
David
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Ok, but what I really haven't caught on to yet, is apt-get available for
Suse Linux or is the utilities that come with Suse that do the comprable
things...better?
BTW, at 7:45 PM, it looks like the Suse website is cleared sufficient
for me to get a wack at it.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
David Goodenough wrote:
>Your understanding of apt-get is not quite right.
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>The Debian equivalent of rpm is dpkg, both deal with the installation,
>upgrade and removal of packages.
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>The equivalent of Yast in the Debian world is either dselect or tasksel,
or
>if you are using KDE then kpackage can front either rpm or dpkg.
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>apt-get is all about resolving dependancies, and given a knowledge of what
>is currently available from the repositories and what is installed,
working
>out what needs to be downloaded in order to install or update a given item
>or to update those items already installed. This does not quite exist in
>the rpm system, even with Yast as its front end. It is this function
which
>makes Debian worth having - no more dependacy hell.
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>David
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>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).
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>So apt-get and RPM are command line versions with YaST being an
>interactive frontend.
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>For those keeping track with the home version, I've been downloading
>for 28 hours and have obtained 3.97 MBs so far from the Suse Maintenace
>Web site.
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>I now see the need for what I assume most shops are doing, of
>automatically downloading new Suse material every night. Rather have
>the machine do the retrys, instead of me.
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>Perhaps Suse should go back to sending out quarterly CDs if they don't
>want to beef up their electronic distribution system.
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>A few weeks ago, I started the query on how Penguin Farms (Penguins
>don't live on farms, they live off the ice shelf on the ocean. Perhaps
>Penguin Farms should be Sea of Penguins?), anyway, how sites with
>multiple Linux systems, keeps their systems up to date and at the same
>maintenance levels. Like download everything from Suse and your images
>are updated from your site. It seems to me that YOU from the Suse site,
>is pretty much unreliable and a failure.
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>Tom Duerbusch
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>apt-get and jigdo are both nice to help. I presume most are familiar
>with what apt-get does.
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