On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 12:55, Jason Louie wrote: > *snip* > Okay let me ask you this; we installed sshd with apt-get, how is dpkg > going > to affect things? Are apt-get and dpkg compatible? I'm not even sure I > understand what I am asking... such a noob. > *snip* > > Yes, as mentioned dpkg is like rpm for SuSE, Fedora and Mandriva and > apt is like YaST, yum, apt-rpm... > > As with dependencies and compatibity these should be resolved for > you... that is the beauty of debian based distros. > > Not to be knocking on RPM based distros and other. I actually use > Fedora at work, and have yum or apt-rpm installed on most of them. If > you are farmiliar with these tools then apt should be very similar. > You can install via apt-get to your hearts content and the > dependencies are handled. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Hi guys: Just a little clarification on the debian package manager. The only package manager that debian has is dpkg. Dselect, Apt, Synaptic, Kynaptic (have I missed any?) are all front ends to dpkg. They are all incapable of installing packages. All they do is select the packages per your instruction and invoke dpkg to handle the rest including any dependencies. Apt is incredible and deserves some study. See man apt and all the links. Apt's most famous command is apt-get dist-upgrade. With these four words your entire distribution is upgraded and all dependencies and conflicts looked after.Viva Libranet! Regards Mel Broadhurst. P.S. I use Synaptic almost exclusively.
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