On Monday 05 February 2007 04:04, Kam Leo wrote: > On 2/5/07, Benjamin Sher <delphi123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dear friends: > > > > Would you recommend installing apt (or kapt)? If so, when would you use > > it? And would you use it only with Fedora's approved repositories or with > > any repositories (e.g. Debian apt)? > > > > Which is preferable: (K)yum, Add/Remove or apt-get? > > Yum replaces up2date and is the default package updater/maintainer > application for Fedora. If you want a GUI install yumex. > > I would not recommend installing apt-get because it is getting harder > to find apt-get based repositories for Fedora. If you install apt-get > and then also install synaptic so that you get a GUI to use in Gnome > and/or KDE. > > Give Smart Package Manager (smart) a try. Smart handles all of the > repo types you listed. Has some useful features such as priortizing > repositories and downgrading packages. The ensemble consists of smart, > smart-gui, smart-update and ksmarttray. > > > Would appreciate your expert opinion. > > > > Thank you. > > > > Benjamin Dear Kam: Thank you very much for your expert advice. Will install yumex and smart package manager. Thanks again. Benjamin
