RE: [PLUG] "Distro" advocates

[adam <adam@looney.com>]

Ahh. That's pretty spiff.
But couldn't one just put apt-get
on a redhat box?
/a

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On Thu, 25 May 2000 darxus@chaosreigns.com wrote:

> 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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