to yum or apt

[cajun]

Lokrin wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 11:25 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
>>
>>> Richard Emberson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Haven't tried yumex (yet), just plain yum, but that does make sure 
>>> everything is right wrt. dependencies etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes; in fact yum doesn't have provide options to break dependencies,
>> unlike rpm itself.
>>
>>
>>> Apart from that, the way I understand it, apt and yum now use exactly 
>>> the same "repository" data, i.e. a yum-enabled distribution directory 
>>> will also work with apt and vice versa. If it uses the current 
>>> repository format, that is; there used to be different, incompatible 
>>> formats, then both tools were updated to support a common standard.
>>
>>
>>
>> I've not heard of any version of apt that can use repo data from any
>> version of yum.
>>
>> Up2date though, can handle old and new yum metadata plus apt metadata.
>> Perhaps that's what you were thinking of?
>>
>>
>>> So you should be able to switch between yum and apt at your whim. Or 
>>> up2date, which also uses the same distro data.
>>
>>
>>
>> I believe there are more yum repos available than apt repos, but
>> synaptic, which is an apt-only front end as far as I know, seems to the
>> best-regarded package management GUI for now (though smart does have its
>> advocates).
>>
>> So if you're familiar with and like synaptic, I'd be inclined to stick
>> with it, but you might need to look a bit harder for repos (freshrpms is
>> a good place to start, since they have mirrors in apt format of some
>> other repos).
>>
>> Paul.
> 
> 
> I just did an apt-get upgrade and it gave me a program called smart.  
> I'm running it now.  The first thing it did was to start listing 
> repositories I didn't have and asking me if I wanted to add them.  Then 
> it gave me three items to upgrade.  I said yes and it started 
> downloading all three at the same time with the status line changing as 
> each one progressed.  I'm updating one long file that is going to take 
> my 56k modem a couple of hours so I don't know how this will end, but 
> I'll let you know when I find out.
> 
> So I now have yum, apt-get, up2date, synaptic and smart.
> 
> smart has no man or info listing.  Just type smart by itself and you get 
> a help list.
> 
> Although the gui gives me an error.  How do I fix this?
> 
> # smart --gui
> error: System has no support for gtk python interface
> 
> 
Hi Lokrin,

Just did a google on that error and found this.  If you can look at this 
page I think it will fix your problem:

http://lists.atrpms.net/pipermail/atrpms-users/2005-July/003405.html


If not, let me know and I will copy it to you.

Lee Perez