Red Hat SE and packages

[Teddy Mills]

Using RPMS packages consistently can be a problem.
When RPMS packages start tripping over each other.
If possible, use source.tars.


Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:32:07AM -0500, William O'Higgins wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
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>Lennart Sorensen
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