[GLLUG] Re: Easy way to install programs
Scott Henry Harrison
harris41 at msu.edu
Fri Oct 17 16:33:36 EDT 2003
>> Is there any easy way to install a program and all of its dependencies
>> with out downloading each one?
> Use apt, which is available at http://www.freshrpms.net
One person's argument for yum as opposed to apt is at:
http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/questions.ptml
That said, apt is a more universal
tool (works on more linux distros, like of course Debian;
I think fink/macX also).
(It might matter how much you plan to live in an
RPM universe.)
My vote would be yum, but they both do pretty much the same thing
nowadays.
Regards,
Scott
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