On 6 August 2012 10:23, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Brian van den Broek > <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > >> So far, yum, I like a great deal. It somehow "fits" my mind better >> than apt-get. (I never really used aptitude.) The GUI >> wrapper/front-end that ships with Fedora 17 LXDE is mighty awful, >> though. I did like synaptic for discoverability, but the current GUI >> is too painful for that. Finding out about alternatives is on the >> list. > > Do you mean you've started using synaptic on Fedora as well? It should > be available, and work relatively as well as for deb packages. If > you've got issues with the UI, please let me know off-list; maybe > there are things I can do to help.
Hi Mathieu, No, I've not tried to use .deb tools like synaptic. I'd booted up the live CD for Fedora17 with the KDE desktop, and the front-end to yum that was there seemed better (from a few minutes poking) than does the one that ships with F17 LXDE. Thanks for the offer of help! > As for aptitude... Well, using aptitude is dangerous at this point > anyway. On Debian systems, aptitude doesn't know about multiarch (or > at least, didn't last time I checked), so it's not recommended to use > it for things like installing flash and whatnot. And once you've > installed flash on your system at all, then all bets are off with what > might happen on future package installs or upgrades. I've been reading around the debian documents and they suggest aptitude is the recommended choice for update wrangling for debian installs. So, now I am confused :-) > [...] > >>> encourage you to stick with it when possible rather than "waste" time >>> relearning things. In all cases you'll be customizing your environment >>> anyway, so might as well not change the underlying foundation if >>> you're already okay with it, and just need to change the graphical UI. >> >> `"waste"' time learning? I don't understand! ;-) > > *re-* learning ;) Well, yes, but the quip scanned better my way :-) The point still stands, but only to a point. As I am soon to post (and the reading debian socs suggests), that point has been reached. > >> In seriousness, I've lived in Debian and derivative land since I >> started with ubuntu and thought if I was changing I might as well see >> how things look outside my comfort zone. I wanted to be positioned so >> that in 6 months or so, I can make an informed choice between deb and >> rpm based distros. (And, it seemed easier than switching teams to see >> what this vi thing I hear so much about is like.) With a few weeks to >> go until the teaching term starts, reinstalling anyway to take > > Totally agree. Not sure what you meant by "teaching term" here; but > regardless, knowing more than one distro means getting into a good > position if your plan is to work in systems administration :) Sorry. I teach at Dawson. Classes start soonish. Once they do, I'll have less time to spend poking and tweaking. <snip> Best, Brian vdB _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
