Red Hat SE and packages

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:32:07AM -0500, William O'Higgins wrote:
> I have recently become an administrator of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES
> machine, and I am running into challenges all over the place.  I run a
> number of Debian machines, and so I am used to the ease and convenience
> of apt.  Is there some equivalent for Red Hat, or do I have to get RPMs
> manually?  I used KRUD for a year, so the Red Hat way is not totally
> foreign, but I went to Debian for a reason.  Thanks.

Well some people install the port of apt-get on RedHat to fix exactly
that problem.  No idea how well it works, since apt-get still depends on
the quality of the dependancy definitions to help it figure out what
needs installing.

Lennart Sorensen
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