[PLUG] PLUG Digest, Vol 62, Issue 89

Mike Connors mconnors1 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 28 00:05:09 UTC 2009


John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:14:02 -0800
> Dale Snell <ddsnell at verizon.net> dijo:
>
>   
>>> As I educate myself to the RPM way of doing things, I am hoping that
>>> the package management suckage will diminish. Fedora 12 does come with
>>> a nice GUI Add/Remove Packages utility, but it's not nearly as fully
>>> featured as Synaptic. I need to figure out repositories; that is, I
>>> assume there is a sources.list file somewhere, but I need to figure
>>> out where there are other repositories and how to add them. That will
>>> be today's educational adventure.
>>>       
You can use Apt w. rpm based distros as well as Synaptic.  
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Fedora_apt_and_yum_repositories.html.

You can also use Alien to convert deb pkgs to rpm if you ever get the itch.
http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/



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