[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 it’s 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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