On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 09:54 -0500, cajun wrote: > Lokrin wrote: > > Paul Howarth wrote: > > > >> On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 11:25 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: > >> > >>> Richard Emberson wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Haven't tried yumex (yet), just plain yum, but that does make sure > >>> everything is right wrt. dependencies etc. > >> > >> > >> > >> Yes; in fact yum doesn't have provide options to break dependencies, > >> unlike rpm itself. > >> > >> > >>> Apart from that, the way I understand it, apt and yum now use exactly > >>> the same "repository" data, i.e. a yum-enabled distribution directory > >>> will also work with apt and vice versa. If it uses the current > >>> repository format, that is; there used to be different, incompatible > >>> formats, then both tools were updated to support a common standard. > >> > >> > >> > >> I've not heard of any version of apt that can use repo data from any > >> version of yum. > >> > >> Up2date though, can handle old and new yum metadata plus apt metadata. > >> Perhaps that's what you were thinking of? > >> > >> > >>> So you should be able to switch between yum and apt at your whim. Or > >>> up2date, which also uses the same distro data. > >> > >> > >> > >> I believe there are more yum repos available than apt repos, but > >> synaptic, which is an apt-only front end as far as I know, seems to the > >> best-regarded package management GUI for now (though smart does have its > >> advocates). > >> > >> So if you're familiar with and like synaptic, I'd be inclined to stick > >> with it, but you might need to look a bit harder for repos (freshrpms is > >> a good place to start, since they have mirrors in apt format of some > >> other repos). > >> > >> Paul. > > > > > > I just did an apt-get upgrade and it gave me a program called smart. > > I'm running it now. The first thing it did was to start listing > > repositories I didn't have and asking me if I wanted to add them. Then > > it gave me three items to upgrade. I said yes and it started > > downloading all three at the same time with the status line changing as > > each one progressed. I'm updating one long file that is going to take > > my 56k modem a couple of hours so I don't know how this will end, but > > I'll let you know when I find out. > > > > So I now have yum, apt-get, up2date, synaptic and smart. > > > > smart has no man or info listing. Just type smart by itself and you get > > a help list. > > > > Although the gui gives me an error. How do I fix this? > > > > # smart --gui > > error: System has no support for gtk python interface > > > > > Hi Lokrin, > > Just did a google on that error and found this. If you can look at this > page I think it will fix your problem: > > http://lists.atrpms.net/pipermail/atrpms-users/2005-July/003405.html > > > If not, let me know and I will copy it to you. I'd check that you have the pygtk2 package installed first though. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
