Ubuntu 4.10

[Eric Dunbar]

Is a package manager something that'll d/l and install an
app/something from source?

Eric.

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:45:34 -0500, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know that much about "package management" yet so I'll smile and nod.
> 
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:07:17 -0500, Brian McKee
> <besomethingelse at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thursday, November 11, 2004, at 03:08  AM, R. McFarlane wrote:
> > >
> > >         I had thought of installing Ubuntu but given that it can not
> > > use existing package management files , that kind of puts me off. I
> > > don't mind "rolling my own" (a.k.a. compiling from source) but to do
> > > it for everything I want gets to be a lot of work. I much prefer yum!