On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:21:41AM +0100, Jan Houtsma wrote: > In RH9 you only had up2date (as far as i know). Now i see people > saying: "don't use up2date anymore, but apt-get" Why? Has one of these > three tools big advantages above the other or is it only what one is > already used to and then advice others also to do the same? Apt is pretty cool. I use the Dag apt repository, which tracks all the stock stuff, plus a pile of extras - pretty much anything you'd want to add on top of a stock redhat/fedora distribution. All I have to do to keep everything up to date is apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. Nothing could be simpler. http://dag.wieers.com/packages/apt/