> With Red Hat dropping out of the desktop market, SuSE may be the best
> hope of there ever being a popular Linux for ordinary people. I do
> understand why you like apt better than SuSE's version of RMP.
>
> I just tried the point and click version of RPM in Red Hat. It was
> extremely slick. I got a dialog box asking for my root password and and
>
> then a nice green progress bar. Had it actually installed the package,
>
> I would have been quite impressed. Unfortunately, I need to resort to
> the command line to get RPM to actually work.
I am going throught the same issue with updating gaim so that I can use msn
messenger. I downloaded a src rpm and the freaking thing propted me for a
install cd and reinstalled the old version. POS
What is the generic equivilant to the dpkg command?
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