Unless I am reading something wrong Mandrake 8.1 supports apt unless APT is
something different??  

"* URPMI: Automated software management systems URPMI (and APT) provide a
hassle-free way to install and upgrade applications."

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/features.php3

Anyone tried it?


-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Tanner [mailto:tanner at real-time.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 1:18 AM
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] question RE RPM's


Quoting Robert Sinland (rsinland at gvtel.com):
> Is there a command or a program in Mandrake 8.1 that will
> let you select an RPM to install, and then install all the
> dependancies for it?

It's called apt :-)

The humor might be lost since you may not understand that it's a debian
thing.

RPM  is a good package tool, but not great. It's not very good a resolving
dependancies. Worse, it doesn't know how to fetch anything that related to
dependancies.

You might want to look at the apt-for-rpm project which was posted to the
list
recently.

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