[Tutor] Re: Installation Routines (Joseph Quigley) (Jay Loden)

[Joseph Quigley]

Interesting. So several distros use rpms? I though only red hat used 'em.


>Rpm does in fact have dependency resolution, and rpm-based distributions 
>use a
>package manager that can download the dependencies and install them for you -
>urpmi on mandrake, yum or apt4rpm on Fedora and Redhat, Yast on Suse
>
>I've used all of these, they are all rpm based, and they all install
>dependencies. If you use the raw "rpm" command, even that will tell you
>"missing dependecy foo".
>
>That being said, apt-get on debian is still my favorite (for sheer number of
>available packages), but urpmi on mandrake or Yast on Suse are quite
>excellent.
>
>-Jay
>
>On Wednesday 20 April 2005 04:17 pm, Max Noel wrote:
>emerge and apt-get come to mind. rpm is inferior (no dependency
> > resolution) but still does a good job, and I hear autopackage isn't
> > bad.