On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 08:21 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> >> wrote: >> > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Matt wrote: >> >> I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert. >> >> Giving Debian a whirl now. >> >> >> > [cut] >> >> >> >> yum update >> > >> > This becomes "apt-get update" in debian. >> >> No. It's not. This is an endless source of confusion for folks coming >> over from RHEL land. "apt-get update" just resyncs your local >> repository information, it attempts to install nothing. >> >> The equivalent apt command is "apt-get upgrade". The equivalent yum >> command to "apt-get update" is "yum clean metadata; yum list", to >> update the available package list. > > As a German and a child from the 80's (44 years today) I started with > SUSE Linux and IIRC they do use yum too, still have got Suse 11.2 > installed, but I'm using yast2, if ever I should change something. > > Don't try to find equivalents, re-educate yourself.
Especially if you've been using YaST based tools. Lord, SuSE did nastiness to that with the non-RPM-based packages from third parties. I welcome Debian's consistent approach of "bundle it and do it right: here are good tools for you" rather than trying to outsmart the vendor packaging systems. (NVidia drivers, shudder!!!!) Apt has been a very intelligible and effective shift from yum based repositories for me: much of the credit for that goes to the Debian maintainers and their firm grasp of "give them enough rope to hang themselves, if they want, but make sure it's *good rope* and won't break at surprising moments or chafe their backsides when they make a hammock". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/banlktimhxx3knplq3qn_ygsznu+tlys...@mail.gmail.com
