On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 00:12, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Phillip, > > At 12:58 PM 4/8/2003 -0400, Phillip Compton wrote: > >If you're looking to make package management / upgrading easier, may I > >suggest using apt-get/synaptic or yum. > > 1) Can apt-get remove a program installed from tarball? If it can I'd be REALLY impressed. :) > 2) Synatic and Yum are also new to me. Currently I am using "checkinstall" > at time of installing a tarball. It builds a RPM for uninstallation. I am > also interested to learn some other programs. Synaptic is a graphical interface for apt-get yum is a command line tool that does pkg installation and updating - much like what apt does. -sv
