Getting apt-rpm

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Mon Nov 21 17:29:36 UTC 2005


On 11/21/05, akonstam at trinity.edu <akonstam at trinity.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 09:15:11PM -0800, peter wu wrote:
> > Hi, all,
> >
> > I am trying to install apt-rpm on FC4.
> >
> > I tried a couple of methods.
> >
> > (1) When I tried apt-0.5.5cnc6-fr1.i386.rpm, I get the following error
> msg.
> Look I don't want to be mean. You have been having a hard time in the
> last few weeks with FC4. Why are you trying to give yourself more
> trouble. In FC4 updating rpms is done by yum. Why are you making
> things hard for yourself and trying to use apt-get which is the
> Debian updating tool?
> --


Yum is better than up2date but not great. That's why apt, smart, and other
utilities are available. Each utility has its strength(s) and weakness(es).
Different strokes for different folks.


Aaron Konstam
> Computer Science
> Trinity University
> telephone: (210)-999-7484
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