Utilities for installation rpm package

[Scott Prive]

I second the 'apt-get' freshrpms.net.  I've been using apt-get on RedHat 7-9
and it is wonderful. You don't need "up2date" and freshrpm's has a lot of
the "interesting" packages that Redhat omits from their CD's (like XMMS mp3
suport, etc).


OT: Actually, package management is the one thing I hate about Red Hat
most... specifically a lot of forced dependencies ("req sendmail" when any
mailserver would do) and the difficulty in finding "unofficial" rpm's that
have has -some- measure of QA testing (that, and finding the dang things...
ftp://contrib.redhat.com is nowhere near as populated as Debian's package
tree). Yeah, I've used Debian but I don't want to steer this topic too far
off track :-)



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daigo Fujiwara" <daigo at daigofujiwara.com>
To: <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: Utilities for installation rpm package


> Bob <gameslover987 at xxxxx.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone know any utilities for install rpm
> > packages and checking the dependencies ?
>
> hello blu members, first post here.
>
> apt-get for rpm is about the best thing that happend to me.
> http://apt.freshrpms.net/
>
> I am also using synaptic
> http://distro.conectiva.com.br/projetos/46/
>
> After installing apt rpm, do(as root)
>
> apt-get update && apt-get install synaptic
>
> It's almost too easy, even little scary. Is there a pit fall to this???
>
> --
> Daigo Fujiwara
> _______________________________________________
> Discuss mailing list
> Discuss at blu.org
> http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss