[wellylug] OpenOffice 1.1.1

[Chris Hodgetts]

I was just having a go... :) 
Didnt want to start a distro war or anything ...

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 11:50, Damon Lynch wrote:
> 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."
>