[wellylug] OpenOffice 1.1.1

[Damon Lynch]

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 11:36, Chris Hodgetts wrote:
> :)
> 
> But if I used the M word, I would not be able to go 
> 
> apt-get install gnome

From:

http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/urpmi

we find:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/walter/geek/rpm-howto.html

"If you've ever used Debian, you'll know that the killer feature is
apt-get, which makes software installation and upgrades amazingly easy.
There is a common perception that this solves all the nasty dependency
problems that RPM-based distributions suffer from, and therefore RPM
sucks.

"This isn't quite the case. Would a Debian user typically use dpkg
manually to do installation? Of course not. There is nothing inherently
wrong with RPM as a package format, which is more or less comparable to
dpkg. What we need is a tool built on top of RPM that does all the
automatic dependency stuff for you like apt does.

"The Mandrake distribution contains just such a tool: URPMI. This is
probably Mandrake's most under-advertised feature, and easily the most
important feature. With it, RPM package management is as easy as apt-get
under Debian."