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Christopher Hicks wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, MJ Ray wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Paul Gear <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:paul@gear.dyndns.org"><paul@gear.dyndns.org></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I never have understood, and still don't understand, why people think
typing 'rpm -Uvh packagename' is hard.
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<pre wrap="">Because you have to find packagename's rpm first. Debian doesn't normally
need you to do that.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->apt-get is available for RPM also and does wonderful things just like on
debian, but no one has yet built the humongous library of interworking
packages the way the legion of debian package maintainers has.
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and on Mandrake (rpm based), you have urpmi.<br>
Just type "urpmi what_you_think" and urpmi will tell you what he finds.
If dependencies are needed, urpmi installs them too.<br>
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Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.koha-fr.org">http://www.koha-fr.org</a>)
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