Re: Debian vs Red Hat for updates

1999-11-12 Thread Ed Cogburn
"Keith G. Murphy" wrote: > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > Howard Mann wrote: > > > > [cut] > > > When I installed Python 1.5, a number of existent > > > apps broke that required Python 1.4 and associated > > > apps like "TLinker." > > > > > > This is obviously very frustrating. Is the upgrade > > > p

Re: Debian vs Red Hat for updates

1999-11-12 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 04:58:41PM -0800, Howard Mann wrote: > > This is obviously very frustrating. Is the upgrade > process in Debian - using apt-get I presume - > generally easier ? Holy moly, yes. > > I'll move to Debian if accomplishing updates/ > upgrades is simpler and more reliable. >

Re: Debian vs Red Hat for updates

1999-11-11 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Howard Mann wrote: > > [cut] > > When I installed Python 1.5, a number of existent > > apps broke that required Python 1.4 and associated > > apps like "TLinker." > > > > This is obviously very frustrating. Is the upgrade > > process in Debian - using apt-get I presume - > >

Re: Debian vs Red Hat for updates

1999-11-11 Thread Ed Cogburn
Howard Mann wrote: > > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Howard Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Be sure to reply to that address. > > Hi, > > I would like to solicit opinions concerning > updates in Debian (.deb) vs Red Hat (.rpm). > > Pewrmit me an anecdote. I recently wanted to > inst

Re: Debian vs Red Hat for updates

1999-11-11 Thread Jordan Howarth
Howard> I'll move to Debian if accomplishing updates/ upgrades is simpler and Howard> more reliable. As one who only recently came from RH 5.2 to Debian slink->potato, the problems you mentioned don't happen with apt-get. The install process is relatively similar. I installed the base a

Debian vs Red Hat for updates

1999-11-11 Thread Howard Mann
This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Howard Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be sure to reply to that address. Hi, I would like to solicit opinions concerning updates in Debian (.deb) vs Red Hat (.rpm). Pewrmit me an anecdote. I recently wanted to install SGML tools, v 2.x. Using an RPM pack