On Saturday 16 August 2003 9:45 am, someone claiming to be Michael Hipp wrote:Sorry, but I can't confirm that. This week I installed kde v. 3.1.2 from
Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
What do want to do:
- use the apt tool as a rpm packet management utility
I just want to use apt to update my systems and install new software. Everything I've read makes it sound very superior to just attempting it via rpm.
package from http://freshrpms.net, partly as a replacement for the
up2date tool to keep my Redhat 9 system uptodate.
apt-rpm, as I understand it, is similar to this, but I have never used
it.
I didn't realize the freshrpms.net tool was different than apt-rpm. One more thing to look into.
I didn't think it was... I use it to maintain my RHL 8.0 system, and AFAIK, it's plain ol' apt-rpm. Could be wrong though...
Does apt preclude the continued use of RedHat's up2date tool?
No, but you'll need to execute up2date -p to update the package list on RHN. Also, if you do what I did and install kde-redhat.sf.net's KDE packages, they're named differently. So RHN will think KDE will need to be updated even when it doesn't. I have that problem with kde and gaim. The more current packages that I have installed are named differently than RHN's, so RHN will think they need to be updated.
kde-redhat.sf.net, and I just did an "up2date" which only gave me a new unzip package. No kde packages were marked as to be updated, although Redhat have put up a new set recently due to a security issue.
Klaus
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