Add/Remove/(K)Yum/Apt-Get -- Which is best?

[Kam Leo]

On 2/5/07, Benjamin Sher <delphi123 at zebra.net> wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> Would you recommend installing apt (or kapt)? If so, when would you use it?
> And would you use it only with Fedora's approved repositories or with any
> repositories (e.g. Debian apt)?
>
> Which is preferable: (K)yum, Add/Remove or apt-get?
>

Yum replaces up2date and is the default package updater/maintainer
application for Fedora. If you want a GUI install yumex.

I would not recommend installing apt-get because it is getting harder
to find apt-get based repositories for Fedora. If you install apt-get
and then also install synaptic so that you get a GUI to use in Gnome
and/or KDE.

Give Smart Package Manager (smart) a try. Smart handles all of the
repo types you listed. Has some useful features such as priortizing
repositories and downgrading packages. The ensemble consists of smart,
smart-gui, smart-update and ksmarttray.

> Would appreciate your expert opinion.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Benjamin