Fw: linux newbie

[Brian Chabot]

Ben Scott wrote:
> On 1/15/07, Brian Chabot <brian at datasquire.net> wrote:
>>> FYI, "rpm -q --requires packagename" does a similar thing for
>>> RPM-based systems.
>>
>> In Mandriva Linux, urpmi does that (in theory) automatically  ...
>
>  Um, given that Mandriva is RPM-based, I'm thinking "rpm" will work.  :)
>

Certainly.

The point was that like debian's apt-get, urpmi is an extension to the
functionality of the main package manager.

For any noob I'd point them to apt-get not dpkg and similarly urpmi
rather than rpm.  (Though over time, I'd try to get them to know bot as
well as the old fashioned method of ./configure-make-make install....
and all the hassles that often come of that.

Brian