Just read on planet centos that you can easily install apt on Centos too using yum.
However, I get :
[root@mike-2 ~]# yum install apt Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments Nothing to do
So not sure what I am missing ..
And sorry if this isn't the right place to ask :)
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Mike michael@shortmail.co.uk wrote:
Just read on planet centos that you can easily install apt on Centos too using yum.
However, I get :
[root@mike-2 ~]# yum install apt Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments Nothing to do
So not sure what I am missing ..
And sorry if this isn't the right place to ask :)
Dag forgot to mention you have to use his repository to use apt :).
On Tuesday 17 June 2008, Mike wrote:
Just read on planet centos that you can easily install apt on Centos too using yum.
Why would you want to do this?
-Ben
-- Only those who reach toward a goal are likely to achieve it.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Benjamin Smith lists@benjamindsmith.com wrote:
On Tuesday 17 June 2008, Mike wrote:
Just read on planet centos that you can easily install apt on Centos too using yum.
Why would you want to do this?
Some people like the apt interface more than the yum interface. Some people feel that it is faster or meets their needs better. The reasons are outlined in DAGs post. Personally, I would rather port yum to debian systems.. so I can understand the want.
Am Dienstag, den 17.06.2008, 16:28 -0600 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Benjamin Smith lists@benjamindsmith.com wrote:
On Tuesday 17 June 2008, Mike wrote:
Just read on planet centos that you can easily install apt on Centos too using yum.
Why would you want to do this?
Some people like the apt interface more than the yum interface. Some people feel that it is faster or meets their needs better. The reasons are outlined in DAGs post. Personally, I would rather port yum to debian systems.. so I can understand the want.
Especially interfaces on top of apt like aptitude need this as well. I personally prefer ncurses based interfaces over X-graphical ones when it comes to server management on remote sites.
Henry
Mike wrote:
Just read on planet centos that you can easily install apt on Centos too using yum.
However, I get :
[root@mike-2 ~]# yum install apt Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments Nothing to do
So not sure what I am missing ..
And sorry if this isn't the right place to ask :)
Linux and CentOS are about choice.
Dag is a CentOS Developer and he does like apt. I'm sure Dag (and others) can help with apt questions here.
That said there are alot of features in yum (like fastestmirror, priorities, installonlyn, and repoquery) that are not available in apt. There are also probably features in apt that are not in yum.
Apt may easy to install and user friendly ... heck, it may even be better than yum, however it is not officially supported. The officially supported way to do updates on CentOS is yum ... and yumex is in the CentOS Extras repo as a GUI based system for updates.
You can certainly ask about apt on CentOS here, though most of the CentOS developers use yum and the QA testing we do is with yum and not apt.
This is not meant to be negative about apt use, just point out that yum is the official way to do updates.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
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Apt may easy to install and user friendly ... heck, it may even be better than yum, however it is not officially supported. The officially supported way to do updates on CentOS is yum ... and yumex is in the CentOS Extras repo as a GUI based system for updates.
There's also pirut, the "built-in" graphical updater (that I never use, but I'm a command line junkie from WAY back).
mhr
on 6-18-2008 5:52 AM Johnny Hughes spake the following:
Mike wrote:
Just read on planet centos that you can easily install apt on Centos too using yum.
However, I get : [root@mike-2 ~]# yum install apt Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments Nothing to do
So not sure what I am missing .. And sorry if this isn't the right place to ask :)
Linux and CentOS are about choice.
Dag is a CentOS Developer and he does like apt. I'm sure Dag (and others) can help with apt questions here.
That said there are alot of features in yum (like fastestmirror, priorities, installonlyn, and repoquery) that are not available in apt. There are also probably features in apt that are not in yum.
Apt may easy to install and user friendly ... heck, it may even be better than yum, however it is not officially supported. The officially supported way to do updates on CentOS is yum ... and yumex is in the CentOS Extras repo as a GUI based system for updates.
You can certainly ask about apt on CentOS here, though most of the CentOS developers use yum and the QA testing we do is with yum and not apt.
This is not meant to be negative about apt use, just point out that yum is the official way to do updates.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
And I would assume that apt won't be able to update from the CentOS repos.
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Scott Silva wrote:
on 6-18-2008 5:52 AM Johnny Hughes spake the following:
Mike wrote:
And I would assume that apt won't be able to update from the CentOS repos.
Of course it does. Read the blog article:
http://dag.wieers.com/blog/using-apt-in-an-rpm-world
You can have both installed next to each other without a problem. And do try out synaptic to feel the speed of apt.
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