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
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