[NTLUG:Discuss] Redhat Offerings

[Kenneth Loafman]

Justin M. Forbes wrote:

> On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 03:48:02PM -0500, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> 
>>I'm becomming a hardcore fan of Debian, more a fan of apt-get than Debian, 
>>but their stuff just works as it should.  Most distros do, but apt is the 
>>"killer ap" for me.  I've been through RPM hell and don't want to go there 
>>any time soon.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately apt doesn't just work, particularly in multilib systems,
> where you may have the same package installed as both x86_64 and i386.  apt
> gets very confused with these types of things, but luckily people are aware
> of it, and have it on their todo list.
> When you do have to use Red Hat or Suse, or any other RPM based distro, yum
> offers similar functionality to apt, and actually works with multilib. you
> can grab it at most repos, or at http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/
> Seth does a great job of addressing issues if you run across them.


Thanks for the heads up.  I did not know about YUM.

...Ken