Ubuntu 4.10

[R. McFarlane]

At 06:07 AM 11/11/2004, Brian McKee, had this to say :

>>         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!
>
>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?

         If apt is able to do a "list" function I sure would like to know. 
Yum lets me "search" the repositories and I can do this all from console, 
no GUI needed.


Sincerely,

R. McFarlane

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