This one time, at band camp, Stewart wrote: > >On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 09:23 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Having said that, Mandrake's "urpmi" is a big leap in the right >>direction, but still lacks the simple elegance of apt-get/dpkg/dselect >>in both operation and configuration. > >now i'm turning into a debhead, can someone 'please explain' exactly >what the difference between apt-get/dpkg/dselect is and how they work >together? to my mind three commands aint as 'simple elegance' as one >rpm one. :-)
dpkg: unpacks debs on the system, keeps a track of what's installed, removes the files, maintains the installed package database (and a few more complex things like maintaining conffile integrity and diversions). apt: works out dependencies between packages, makes sure the system has all the correct packages installed, wraps around dpkg to install a package or group of packages at once. Knows where to download packages from (cdrom, ftp site, whatever) dselect: package selection frontend, lets user see what's installed on the system and allows them to choose what they want installed / uninstalled. wraps around apt which does the work of installing the packages (which in turn calls dpkg to do the work of installing the packages...) see also: aptitude >but other than that i'm pretty impressed with how my woody is >installing. Red Hat, Mandrake, Slackware, Gentoo, Debian... they're all the same in the end, but it's double entendre like this that makes Debian the best :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
