Red Hat SE and packages

[Dan Gennidakis]

The preferred method for a registered/supported Red Hat ES system is to either use RPM at the command line as you do with apt or use Red Hat Update - up2date either in X or the command line using the --nox option. I have rarely encountered problems updating systems this way and yes I use both Red Hat and Debian based systems. It is just a matter of getting familiar with the features/options of rpm as you are familiar with apt-get. I don't think Red Hat will support using apt on ES systems with non-official Red Hat packages. 
 
Teddy Mills <teddymills-VFlxZYho3OA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

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:
> 
>
>>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 dependency definitions to help it figure out what
>needs installing.
>
>Lennart Sorensen
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