>>> Could someone please state the relative advantages and >>> disadvantages of the apt-get and yum installation managers? Just to answer my opinion on the above mentioned question -- the difference between yum and apt-get is mostly historical. Yum used to be pretty bad and slow, whereas apt-get wasn't able to work with multilib. Currently yum (especially in FC7) is much faster, so there is no reason to use less supported (in Fedora-world) less supported solution (I am not sure about the current status of multilib support in the current apt-rpm/apt-get). Unfortunately, the real difference between Debian/Ubuntu/other-dpkg-based distros still remains in the level of programs above level of apt-get/yum -- there is still not port of aptitude, which used to be my prefered package manager of choice. Yumex and kyum (for Gnome or KDE respectively) are pretty good, but still I would prefer well working stable port of aptitude. Oh well. Just my personal opinion of course, and wide open to any well-reasoned corrections on this. Matěj -- http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: ceplma<at>jabber.cz GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC Do not long for the night, when people vanish in their place. Be careful, do not turn to evil; for you have preferred this to affliction. -- Job 36:20f (NASB)
