I, too, would love to hear more about this. I've been off playing with Debian Sarge for a couple of days and although there are a number of things I prefer about MDK, I must say that I was completely seduced by Apt, along with the GUI, Synaptic. Much better than urpmi and MDK's GUI tools.
Typing apt-get update and apt-get upgrade without any of the issues of MDK was just great. Being able to browse through >13,000 programs/files I could install was also amazing. But, installing and updating them was just too smooth for words. apt-get install openoffice telling me I had it installed and then upgrading to the newest version was great. But, it was installing Firefox and Superkaramba via apt-get install superkaramba (nothing more) was too sweet for words. On MDK, both were a pain for different reasons. MDK clearly still has a much better install process (Debian's new installer still has lots of room to grow). MDK also has much cleaner config tools through the Control Centre. Add in something like Up2date like Fedora (MDK seems to be moving in that direction) and Apt to find and install and update open source programs outside of MDK and MDK would be perfect. As an aside, it's nice to be able to actually compare these distros and see strengths and weaknesses, between them. I could never do that with XP. Rory On Sunday 25 April 2004 8:57 am, Keith Powell wrote: > I have downloaded APT from Mandrake10 Contrib, and have tried to get it > working. > > It attempts to access the APT repository at Sunet, but says it can't. > > Does anyone know if APT is now back with Mandrake? It used to be and then > "disappeared". If so, where is the repository, please? > > Even if it does work, there may be no packages from it, which are not > available from the urpmi sources. I though it was worth looking at, though. > > Many thanks > > Keith -- ~Rory
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