Ubuntu 4.10

[Greg Hamilton]

R. McFarlane wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

Read the man pages for apt-cache and dpkg. I think you'll be pleasantly 
surprised.

Greg