Apt on Slackware/Arch

Filosofem · 01-26-2006, 10:02 PM

Hello. Well, obviously, many threads are about people seeking for a distribution like Slackware or Arch with "apt" and "dpkg" support. Being one of those people, I'm simply wondering, first, if such distribution exists and second, if not, if someone tried installing "apt" and "dpkg" on Slackware or Arch.

Hangdog42 · 01-27-2006, 03:43 PM

There are similar programs for Slackware (slapt-get, swaret and a few other) but in my opinion they kinda go against the whole Slackware ethos.

cs-cam · 01-28-2006, 05:03 AM

Why would you want to? If you want the Debian package management then use Debian. The only real difference between distrobutions is the package manager anyway...

mcmillan · 01-28-2006, 01:25 PM

As Hangdog said slackware has some package managers, and arch also has pacman, which I'm actually starting to like a bit better than apt.

Filosofem · 01-28-2006, 08:14 PM

Hey. Aw, to me, it seems hard than to do better than "apt". Still, in what way is it better? Also, is there an equivalent to "apt-cache" in those distributions? That command is so helpful.

Filosofem · 01-28-2006, 08:31 PM

Ah, and the answer to the last question is that obviously, Debian's packages are compiled for i386, which is not the best. So I'm kind of looking for something more specifically for i686.

mcmillan · 01-28-2006, 08:53 PM

The thing I like about pacman is that it is more straight forward than apt, prettty much everything is just pacman -[option] with the options rarely needing to be more than two letters. On the otherhand I think there this is at a cost of not being able to do everything apt is capable of, though it haven't felt much of a loss. The one thing I really like that as far as I know apt doesn't do is give the option to remove a package and all of the dependencies that are no longer needed at the same time.

cs-cam · 01-29-2006, 02:23 AM

For the people who are Arch users and may be able to help but have been intelligent enough to never have spend a second glance at Debian, what does apt-cache do?

mfoley93 · 12-19-2011, 03:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Filosofem

Hey. Aw, to me, it seems hard than to do better than "apt". Still, in what way is it better? Also, is there an equivalent to "apt-cache" in those distributions? That command is so helpful.

Assuming your looking for:

Code:

#apt-cache search package-name

the pacman equivalent is:

Code:

#pacman -S -s package-name

Quote:

Originally Posted by cs-cam

For the people who are Arch users and may be able to help but have been intelligent enough to never have spend a second glance at Debian, what does apt-cache do?

As you probably just got, apt-cache is used to search for a package if the exact name is not known.

Just another little tid-bit. I always like to insert the refresh repositories command when searching for or installing packages with pacman, it takes almost no time (unlike Debian/Ubuntu) and avoids the occasional time when my system tries to download a package that is no longer available. It is denoted by the "y" argument.

Code:

#pacman -S -y*other_arguments* package-name

Just be sure to omit the *'s.

brianL · 12-19-2011, 04:08 PM

Five year old thread.

onebuck · 12-19-2011, 11:19 PM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by mfoley93

Assuming your looking for:

Code:

#apt-cache search package-name

the pacman equivalent is:

Code:

#pacman -S -s package-name

As you probably just got, apt-cache is used to search for a package if the exact name is not known.

Just another little tid-bit. I always like to insert the refresh repositories command when searching for or installing packages with pacman, it takes almost no time (unlike Debian/Ubuntu) and avoids the occasional time when my system tries to download a package that is no longer available. It is denoted by the "y" argument.

Code:

#pacman -S -y*other_arguments* package-name

Just be sure to omit the *'s.

Please try to refrain from resurrecting old threads. This thread is over 5 years old. Plus the OP has not posted since this post.