What's up with apt (and in praise of yum)

[Harvey Ussery]

Really glad you resolved the prob, Tom--thanks for letting us know. I'm 
still trying to master use of yum, espec w regards to querying yum re 
pkgs--both installed & available fr the download site. But I've been 
able to download what I wanted to, once I ascertained the availability 
status.

Meanwhile, over in my Debian install, going thru the same learning 
process w apt. (Haven't checked out aptitude, the more recent frontend 
to apt, as yet.) Maybe I'll be picking your brain sometime for pointers 
on apt.

Cheers.    --Harvey

Thomas Carlson wrote:

> Thanks to Charles and Harvey for setting me straight on yum.  I have 
> pointed it to a mirror and everything works fine now.
>
> I still don't know why yum is such an improvement over apt, however, 
> especially when the connection shuts down and one has to start all 
> over again.  Apt just picked up where it left off, whereas yum doesn't 
> seem to like a partially downloaded package hanging around.  I also 
> liked the way that apt gave me more information about the progress of 
> downloads.
>
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