Re: Newbie selecting package manager

2005-07-07 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Elmer E. Dow wrote: After having used Red Hat 9 and Knoppix (hard disk install), I installed Sarge a while ago and plan to stick with it. Now I need to select a package manager to use that fits my needs. My laptop is used for office applications (creating documents, some graphics, presentatio

Re: Newbie selecting package manager

2005-07-07 Thread Jeffrin Jose
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 21:42 -0600, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > After having used Red Hat 9 and Knoppix (hard disk install), I installed > Sarge > a while ago and plan to stick with it. All support to you. > Now I need to select a package manager > to use that fits my needs. My laptop is used for off

Re: Newbie selecting package manager

2005-07-06 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 21:42, Elmer E. Dow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm leaning toward using apt (and maybe occasionally using Synaptic) > rather then Aptitude. ITYM: "apt-get". apt-get (and its cohorts), Synaptic, and aptitude are all based on the Advanced Package T

Newbie selecting package manager

2005-07-06 Thread Elmer E. Dow
After having used Red Hat 9 and Knoppix (hard disk install), I installed Sarge a while ago and plan to stick with it. Now I need to select a package manager to use that fits my needs. My laptop is used for office applications (creating documents, some graphics, presentation, browsing, e-mail, e