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 at 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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080618/a5082d73/attachment-0005.sig>