Another Linux hidden gem

I use apt-get on Ubuntu but there are others.: But another system I know that uses RPMs is urpmi on the Mandriva Linux distro. It does a pretty good job or getting dependencies for you and installing them. Might not be identical to apt-get but it certainly does the things you mentioned. Another one is yum, it pretty much does these things too.

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Tools/urpmi
http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/

Most of the more popular distributions have a way to deal with getting dependencies

A nice graphical front end for apt is the Synaptic Package Manager. For those who don't like getting into the command line stuff. If you are using a KDE front end instead of Gnome there is also Adept, though I prefer the interface of Synaptic.

http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/
http://web.mornfall.net/adept.html

Evan Leibovitch, I suggest you check these out if you are interested in that sort of thing. Unless you already knew about them of course.; Posted by: ImBatman Posted on: 07/14/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use