Darxus on Mon, 3 Jan 2000 13:36:10 -0500 (EST)


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apt (was: Re: [Plug] redhat 6.1 insllation)


On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Michael W. Ryan wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Darxus wrote:
> 
> > Unless you use debian :)
> 
> Whatever.  I suppose apt-get doesn't relieve you of the decision making
> process.  Or do you mean that you can install them from a remote site?
> RPM has been able to do that since RH 4.1, at least.

I'm not sure exactly what you're asking.

I can telnet into my computer from here, run "apt-get dist-upgrade", it'll
download the current versions of all installed packages and everything
they depend on, give me a couple configuration prompts, install
everything, and restart necessary daemons.  

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