Just wondering how many ppl are using apt / Synaptic to maintain their Linux.
For the ppl who don't know apt.
It's a RPM manager from Debian and Synaptic is the GUI interface.
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It isnt an RPM manager you cant use rpms with apt they use .deb packages. Yeh I use apt its a great tool.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opnosforatou
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It isnt an RPM manager you cant use rpms with apt they use .deb packages. Yeh I use apt its a great tool.
When I used Redhat, I remeber using apt-get. The tree wasn't as big as it is today, but still useable. Nowdays, if I wan't anything I just use slaptget and/or swaret to download and install stuff for me..
Kriss
sounds interesting, i may get it..... i can use it on redhat 8.0 yes?
Opnosforatou that is a modified APT to work with RPM's the orginal APT is for Debain and uses .deb packages which is what ii thought you where talking about.
i have downloaded and install it, how do i run it, i would like to attach an icon to it on my desktop, whats the command for it?Quote:
Originally Posted by kriss
You have to run it in terminal, but a simple "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" would update your system, and after that you can just run "apt-get install packagename".
However, Synaptic as Opnosforatou said is the frontend for apt. I haven't used it, but I'm shure its good.
Good luck
yeh i done apt-get update, it was taking forever and lots of disk space so i cancelled it, i only got 5gb disk space, i'll run it again once i get linux onto a bigger hdd
i perfer to compile everything by hand so i dont use aptget or even the 2 that kriss mentioned since im in slackware. but if they were to get the source of applications and compile them and install them i would be using them :)