[wellylug] OpenOffice 1.1.1

[Klenner, Colin]

And Linux is ready for the masses - yeah right!

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From: wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz
[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz] On Behalf Of Damon Lynch
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 11:51 AM
To: wellylug
Subject: Re: [wellylug] OpenOffice 1.1.1


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."


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