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Novell chooses streamlined Linux desktop (vnunet)

Novell chooses streamlined Linux desktop (vnunet)

Posted Sep 14, 2004 17:07 UTC (Tue) by utidjian (subscriber, #444)
In reply to: Novell chooses streamlined Linux desktop (vnunet) by elanthis
Parent article: Novell chooses streamlined Linux desktop (vnunet)

It is called Synaptic... available for (at least) Red Hat, Fedora and Debian and the appropriate repositories.
http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/

There may be other such applications, Yast, Urpmi?

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urpmi, gurpmi

Posted Sep 14, 2004 18:06 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Mandrake's urpmi is a great tool, and the graphical client gurpmi is very nice. However, the lack of official repositories is a shame -- you have to hunt for them, as they may change structure, change location and so on periodically. It may be due to my limited knowledge, but it's a tedious process to keep them working.

With Cooker, you are supposed to rsync the whole tree each time you update to it. Not funny.

I completely prefer apt, since the repositories are official and do not change location. And dselect is a very nice tool.

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