Use apt-get for RPM (was RE: [CLUE-Tech] Red Hat up2date)

[Crawford Rainwater]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us
> [mailto:clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us]On Behalf Of Angelo Bertolli
> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 8:18 PM
> To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
> Subject: [CLUE-Tech] Red Hat up2date
> 
> 
> 
> > If that's not doable, you might also want to look at SuSE with Ximian
> > GNOME... it's about as user-friendly as a desktop gets. I don't
> > recommend Red Hat 9, I've had a few problems with it (notably, the
> > updater has died on me, and I can no longer get system updates using
> > it... and for some reason, Adobe Acrobat doesn't want to work...), but
> > SuSE is pretty solid. 
> 
> Tell me about it.  I've run up2date a million times just to try to 
> download the packages, I usually do an up2date -ud in order to get the 
> stuff (cause that seems to work better), but after a while it just 
> totally crapped out.  Futhermore rpm on RH9 seems to have a problem once 
> in a while.
> 

Try using apt-get for RPM's.  Same ideas, just based off the Debian
apt-get utility, and I find it works well for RH 9.0 especially over 
dial-up.

--- Crawford