yum vs. apt

[Peter Cannon]

On Tuesday 23 November 2004 15:45, Axel Thimm wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 09:52:16AM -0500, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 09:24 -0500, Mark Bradford wrote:
> > > I have been using apt for installs and updating/upgrading, but am
> > > noticing most of the conversation here seems to favor yum.  Is there
> > > any significant difference between the two, or are there any issues or
> > > conflicts in using both?
> >
> > FC3 repositories seem to be dropping apt support,

Well I use apt with Synaptic front end without any problems the list of repos 
that is installed by default is impressive covering various RedHat releases.

With regards to Newbies IMHO this is a better option than yum due to that 
dreaded word GUI with Synaptic you can see everything available at a glance, 
use it to un-install things and it sorts out the dependencies it will also 
select additional packages for install if required so if a novice selects 
something and doesn't realise another bit is needed they wont get in a mess.

As others have said yumi doesn't work (at the moment) apt offered to install 
it and it is installed but it cries about cannot import client something or 
other. 

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Regards
Peter Cannon