On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 09:00, Eric Dunbar wrote: > I've noticed that apt-get is available on my YDL 3 install (I ran it > when I was trying to figure out why "ditto" wasn't available... (I use > it under OS X)). > > So what is/are the relationships between these different package & > dependency managers? > > rpm = redhat package manager, yum = yellowdog update manager (& now > adopted by fedora IIRC), dpkg, apt-get are related too (does apt-get > use dpkg)? > > Anyway, what's the family tree here or is there one? > > Eric. > _______________________________________________
rpm actualy installs, removes, and updates the packages, yum runs on top of it checking depenedancies, and d/l'ing what is needed, apt and dpkg work in a similar way respectively... sloopy. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
