Package management

[Brian Chabot]

Charlie Farinella wrote:

> To do it with RPM's I need to do about a dozen of them which means I have 
> to find out which ones I need, etc. negating any advantage to the package 
> management system.  
> 
> I could build it from source and either run the 2 versions of python 
> simultaneously, or replace the installed python, but again I lose my auto 
> update option.
> 
> How does everyone else do this?

I use Mandriva's urpmi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urpmi

urpmi is to rpm as apt-get is to dpkg for the most part.

Brian