apt-get, yum or up2date

Kevin MacNeil k.macneil at verizon.net
Sun Jan 25 12:40:31 UTC 2004


On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:21:41AM +0100, Jan Houtsma wrote:

> In RH9 you only had up2date (as far as i know). Now i see people
> saying: "don't use up2date anymore, but apt-get" Why? Has one of these
> three tools big advantages above the other or is it only what one is
> already used to and then advice others also to do the same?

Apt is pretty cool. I use the Dag apt repository, which tracks all the
stock stuff, plus a pile of extras - pretty much anything you'd want to
add on top of a stock redhat/fedora distribution. All I have to do to
keep everything up to date is apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade.
Nothing could be simpler.

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/apt/





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