RE: [PLUG] "Distro" advocates

[darxus@chaosreigns.com]

On Thu, 25 May 2000, adam wrote:

> Hey, to me apt sounds similar to rpm.
> Can anyone hit us with a rpm vs. apt for
> the time challenged?

I wanted to install the openssh on a redhat 6.0 box.

1) Found the openssh rpm (took some searching)
2) rpm -i openssh*.rpm -- requires newer version of rpm
3) find more recent version of rpm
4) rpm -i rpm*.rpm -- requres papt & newer bzip2
5) find & download papt & newer bzip2
6) rpm -i papt*.rpm
7) rpm -U bzip2*.rpm
8) rpm -U rpm*.rpm
9) rpm -i openssh*.rpm
10) /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd start

I wanted to install the openssh server on a debian box.

1) apt-get update 
2) apt-get install ssh


rpm is not like apt.  rpm is like dpkg.  rpm & dpkg handle installing &
uninstalling packages that you've already found and downloaded.  Apt finds
what you want, finds everything it depends on, downloads it all, installs
it all (via dpkg), and restarts server apps if necessary.

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