On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 14:06, Brett Fenton wrote: > apt is cutting out a step. in the simplest case with an rpm you might > visit rpmfind.net for example, locate your package, download and then > install.
Er, no. That's not the simplest case. up2date -i package apt is great, but as we've said before in this thread, there's many such application that work on top of rpm, including apt itself. up2date has been in Red hat for a very long time. Mike -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Mike MacCana Consultant RHCE, MCSE, MCP+I Cybersource: Providing Quality IT Professional Services for 11 Years Specialists in Unix/Linux, TCP/IP and Web Application Development Level 4, 10 Queen St, Melbourne. Ph : 03 9621 2377 Fax: 03 9621 2477 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
