I hate apt-get

[Joseph Smith]

On 02/12/2011 11:22 PM, Lori Nagel wrote:
> I hate apt-get stuff.  I don't know what kernel you have.  I assume you probably
>
> are not using the libre-fshoppe kernel or something since you are installing
> proprietary software.
>
> I want to say go back to a red hat (rpm)  based distro. honestly, I completely
> broke my gnewsense package management  (meaning I can't install anymore packages
>
> period)  and I really have no suggestions except reinstall the kernel. (that I
> don't want to do right now, because I hope to complete alpha of wograld
> (www.wograld.org) before I die or get too demented to work on it.   I don't
> actually expect apt-get to work right or that you will be able to install the
> version of the program you want if you have an older version of a debian based
> distro (unlike rpm distros where you could just compile it from source as long
> as you don't need a package for the program installed)   I actually gave up on
> installing the latest battle for wesnoth on this system for similar reasons.
>
All I have to say is "yum" :-)


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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
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