Ubuntu 4.10

[Brian McKee]

But how is that any different than YDL and FreshRPMs?
Do you feel there is significantly more packages available?
Brian

On Thursday, November 11, 2004, at 11:28  AM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:

> On Thursday 11 November 2004 14:07, Brian McKee wrote:
>> Can you explain your concern better to me?  Ubuntu has 'apt' which is
>> often called the best of the package management systems.  Debian 
>> people
>> sure think so anyway :-)   I would think it at least the equal of yum.
>>   And while I haven't looked I thought the ppc packages available were
>> pretty extensive... What don't I know?
>>
>> Brian
>
> Ubuntu has 'apt' but installing anything that is not on the Ubuntu
> repositories (either the supported ones or the "universe" unsupported 
> ones)
> will probably not run, or even corupt your installation. In other 
> words:
> Ubuntu "debian" packages are not compatible with "normal" debian 
> packages -
> or at least there is no guaranty that they are.
>
> AFAIK compiling the sources should work
>
> Thierry
>
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