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RE: apt for SuSE

RD — Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:31 pm

Author: RD

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 4:31 pm

Ive know about apt4rpm for years, just i left suse for debian years ago because of the pain in the backside it was to install one app

RE: apt for SuSE

davecs — Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:16 pm

Author: davecs

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 6:16 pm

apt4rpm is not totally new. It was part of the former Connectiva distribution, and is the standard package manager, with the synaptic frontend, in PCLinuxOS.

The best thing about apt4rpm is that it does make Synaptic available in rpm-distros, which is much easier to operate than having to jump between four separate applets in Mandrake, for example.

RE: apt for SuSE

Gordon — Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:55 pm

Author: Gordon

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:55 pm

There is also and apt on SUSE9.3. It can be found in /etc/alternatives

RE: apt for SuSE

RD — Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:39 am

Author: RD

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:39 am

about time

thanks

apt for SuSE

overflow — Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:18 am

Author: overflow

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:18 am

This may not be news to some of you but it was to me.

I know a few people who gave up with SuSE because of YaST vs apt issues. Well now there's an apt command for SuSE.

http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/

Actually, it's not quite as good as it looks because it's only a wrapper around RPMs but it does a good job, as far as I can see.

Debian users won't feel quite so lost on SuSE now.