OpenOffice documentation on Sarge
Neil Joseph Schelly
neil at jenandneil.com
Wed Feb 9 20:15:01 EST 2005
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 04:27 pm, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 16:11 -0500, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> > Coming from a Redhat background, all this apt/synaptics/... stuff is new
> > and a bit confusing. At least there was just one command to rpm (well,
> > there used to be just one...)
>
> Debian's equivalent of "rpm" is "dpkg". Apt is sort of like up2date on
> a large quantity of steroids. 8)
Except that it should be clarified that if you use dpkg much without knowing
what you're doing, you're probably not doing it right. Use apt for more than
a day and I'm sure you'll never look back at rpm. And check out apt-get.org
if you find that testing/sarge doesn't quite have what you want.
-N
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