On 09-Jul-2004 Frank Barknecht wrote: } Hallo, } RickTaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx hat gesagt: // RickTaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: } } > dselect } } Oh, the horrors that were dselect. RIP. ;) http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/dpkg ...Still one of the most lovely programs on the face of the planet. I've still not figured out why so many folk used to complain about it. It's easy, efficient and 10 times as stable as anything else. The only real argument I've heard against it is that it's a terminal program. Personally, I like terminal stuff. } > kpackage } } I think, this is newer than apt, but I never used it. Many years old. It used to be a horror {like Gnomepackage and the Stormthing. {They'd both improved last time I used them... tho' I'm not real sure the gnome thing still exists.} It's always had the most capabilities. Now it seems like they work. Aptitude used to be pretty good. It's not as stable as dselect. {Nothing is as stable as dselect} I don't think kpackage will work to download rpms... {not tried it} it still makes for an *excellent* package/file manager. http://www.conectiva.com.br Conectiva originally put Synaptic together as a cross-package thing... Maybe it will still work that way for .deb users? ---------------------------------- E-Mail: RickTaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: 10-Jul-2004 Time: 02:45:37 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------
