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Master of Reality:
its kind of a bitch to try and find the source for all the programs I want to install.

creedon:

quote:Originally posted by Master of Reality / Bob:
its kind of a bitch to try and find the source for all the programs I want to install.
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That's why Debian is superior;apt-get is a frontend for dpkg.  dpkg WILL NOT configure a package that has conflicts or unrecognized dependancies.  You can, however still compile from source but I can't conceive of a reason you'd want to; apt-get has access to over 6,000 packages on the Debian server- I mean, really, if you can't find what you need there, you're way too particular.  There is also a function that will create a .deb package from source code.
Debian is the easiest distro to upgrade, and it's getting to be the easiest to install; check out
http://hackers.progeny.com/pgi/
'nuff said

Master of Reality:
I'm using Red Hat right now, so that doesnt help me at all.

voidmain:
Would someone please ban that dumb fucker XP Luser already?!?!?!?!?!

Ok, back on topic.  m0r, try running this "rpm --rebuilddb" and see what happens. It should rebuild your RPM database.  I have not seen that error before and I have no idea how you got to that point but it appears your database got screwed up.

There is *nothing* wrong with RPM package management.  Those that state otherwise do not understand it or know how to use it.  It may be a little harder to learn than "apt-get" but it is a FINE package management system.

creedon:

quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
Would someone please ban that dumb fucker XP Luser already?!?!?!?!?!

Ok, back on topic.  m0r, try running this "rpm --rebuilddb" and see what happens. It should rebuild your RPM database.  I have not seen that error before and I have no idea how you got to that point but it appears your database got screwed up.

There is *nothing* wrong with RPM package management.  Those that state otherwise do not understand it or know how to use it.  It may be a little harder to learn than "apt-get" but it is a FINE package management system.
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First, RE: XPEEPEE, He's gonna find out what a tiger trap is, when I'm done with him, he'll be looking around his room before he gets out of bed.
Second; RPM's are my biggest dislike as far as RedHat et al goes; it doesn't check dependancies, tries to install the package, and then drops the whole damned mess in your lap.  That doesn't happen with apt; it CAN'T.
There's hope on the horizon.  Connectiva Linux (yes, one of the members of United Linux) has a utility called apt-rpm; it's a port of apt-get for RPM based distros.  I'm not sure, but I think it's available for the latest releases of RedHat.
BTW; apt isn't ALL that easy to learn; there's a lot of thing you can do wrong (believe me I found out the hard way).  It's so configureable you can easily get lost, but once you get a firm understanding of it, it just stands head and shoulders over other package managers.

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