Re: apt-rpm supported?
Panu Matilainen <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, seth vidal wrote: > > > Odd. I only looked into Fedora in the first place to use apt-rpm. > > I'm quite surprised to hear that it's not yet officially supported. As a > > long-time Debian user, it made me feel very comfortable on an rpm-based > > distro. > > Any good comparisons of the two? Can I install based on pathname, > > libname in yum? Is the search facility as good as "apt-cache"? > > yum search and yum provides I think Michael meant this: [root@localhost pmatilai]# apt-get install libgphoto2.so.2 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Note, selecting gphoto2 instead of libgphoto2.so.2 The following NEW packages will be installed: gphoto2 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 646kB of archives. After unpacking 2177kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://linox 4.0/i386/RedHat/main gphoto2 2.1.0-7 [646kB] Fetched 646kB in 2s (287kB/s) Checking GPG signatures... Executing RPM (-Uvh)... Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:gphoto2 ########################################### [100%] [root@localhost pmatilai]# The deal here is that apt considers every "provides" as a package (a "virtual package" in apt terminology). As long as there's only one package providing something it automatically installs that, otherwise it makes you choose one from available variants. - Panu - -- fedora-test-list mailing list [email protected] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list