Query about fc4 servers support for apt-get

[Oliver Leitner]

has anyone mailed idsoft about this?

might be interresting to hear their response, theyre usually very open to
"*our*" community;)

On 10/20/05, Rudolf Kastl <che666 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> theres fedora core 4 for x86_64 and it works rather well on various
> servers and desktops i have running ;).
>
> the problem there is though that apt cant handle the parallel
> installation of 32 bit and 64 bit libs. this is required if you want
> 32 bit backwards compatibility e.g. to install 32 bit games like enemy
> territory or doom3 as well as other binary stuff that isnt available
> for 64 bit linux (yet). also apt is known to have various other
> problems with handling rpms properly. that said... id recommend yum
> and probably yumex (GUI) if you want to easily install software on a
> 64 bit fedora box with 64 bit fedora installed.
> yumex is available from the fedora extras repository.
>
> regards,
> Rudolf Kastl
>
> 2005/10/20, Oliver Leitner <shadow333 at gmail.com>:
> > well, servers...
> >
> > if youre talking about 386 "servers", mr. Davara gave all answers i
> think.
> >
> > if youre talking about x86_64 or true 64bit machine, i dont know if fc
> is
> > yet that far, that they support all kinds of architectures.
> >
> > but youre welcome to compile the packages and make your own mirror, i
> think
> > they got a good documentation on that somewhere (sorry, i dont know it
> out
> > of my mind...)
> >
> > Greetings
> > Oliver Leitner
> >
> >
> > On 10/20/05, Gilboa Davara <gilboada at netvision.net.il> wrote:
> > > apt is fully supported by freshrpms. (Including core/updates/extra
> > > packages)
> > > Only i386 is supported, though.
> > > http://apt.freshrpms.net/
> > >
> > > Gilboa
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 20:42 +0530, Vikram Goyal wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I am using apt-get and synaptic to update and install rpms.
> > > >
> > > > I wanted to know if apt-get is supported by redhat/fedora download
> > > > servers, since I couldn't find one. All support only yum.
> > > >
> > > > Thanking in advance.
> > > > --
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