On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 07:01:57AM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > It gets sort of tiring to make unfaltering (to Fedora) comparisons to > Ubunbtu get rather tiring. There are advantages and disadvantages to > both systems. The fact that apt and synaptic are available in Fedora > makes the pup vs update manager debate sort of silly. > > One gaping hole in the Ubuntu is how to do the equivalent of adding a > repository. How for example would you add the equivalent of the Dell > repository to Ubuntu. It is not at all clear, at least to me. > I am willing to learn if someone is willing to explain. In Ubuntu two > conflicting procedures are presented. It isn't always easy to find out how to do something in Ubuntu, but the same complaint applies to Fedora and, I expect, to most other OSs. Here's what I do: add a line to /etc/apt/sources.list. E.g, for skype,com: deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free (http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/repositories.html) Since I run apt-cache, I point to the apt-cache server, like so: deb http://phoenix.localdomain:3142/download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free (Isn't it neat: you can get support for Ubuntu on a Fedora list!) -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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