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Distribution: Ubuntu 11.4,DD-WRT micro plus ssh,lfs-6.6,Fedora 15,Fedora 16
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of course you could, if you knew how
although synaptic is really not a package manager in itself it is mearly what you call a 'frontend' for apt-get which is the actual package manager
in case you are wondering a 'frontend' is mearly a secondary program that provides an interface for another
of course you could, if you knew how
although synaptic is really not a package manager in itself it is mearly what you call a 'frontend' for apt-get which is the actual package manager
in case you are wondering a 'frontend' is mearly a secondary program that provides an interface for another
dpkg is the backend behind apt and synaptic. Apt basically finds dependencies and installs them with dpkg(or rpm), and synaptic is a graphical frontend to apt
The last thing i want is my distro to be Debian-based. I hate Debain i hate debra i hate Ian :P I like Slackware and openSuSE but i don't want my distro to be slackware-based either. So i guess i'll just do this linux from scratch magic and add dpkg apt and synaptic. how does that sound, eh?
The last thing i want is my distro to be Debian-based. I hate Debain i hate debra i hate Ian :P I like Slackware and openSuSE but i don't want my distro to be slackware-based either. So i guess i'll just do this linux from scratch magic and add dpkg apt and synaptic. how does that sound, eh?
Why don't you ask that in the LFS forum here?
I should have said that Slackware and Debian were the oldest distros that were still around ( I think?).
How can dpkg be similar to rpm?? RPM is a package manager but dpkg is just a program that installs/removes .deb packages.. apt could be similar to rpm but not dpkg.. what a??
Slackware is the oldest currently being maintained.
btw, what is slackware using instead of dpkg?
QueenZ, a word of advice if I may:
If you want people to take you seriously on here, you need to keep an eye on your signal to noise ratio. You just seem to be asking random questions now for the sake of it. If you go on the way you are, people are just going to stop responding to you.
If you really want to know about "slackware package management", google it and the first result returned will be to the package management chapter of the slackbook. But somehow, I get the feeling that you're really not that interested.
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