[wellylug] Onebase Linux

Bill Christiansen bill.christiansen at paradise.net.nz
Tue Jun 15 05:57:29 NZST 2004


David Antliff wrote:

>On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Bill Christiansen wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I like the fact that you can type a single command to update everything
>>on your system (a bit like debian's apt-get but I think it's better).
>>    
>>
>
>Sounds interesting - would you kindly elaborate please?
>
>  
>
the package manager is called "olm"
olm -b system
will do a binary update of all installed packages with automatic 
dependacy checking or you can use olm -s system for source compile 
instead of binary. All packages come from a single repository so there's 
no problems with clashing versions between stable & testing etc. Also 
you don't get a list of a 100 things you could update - it will only 
update what is already installed so it's fully automatic, although you 
can manually exclude specific apps from update with version masking. To 
install new apps you use the same olm command:
e.g.
olm -b firefox

olm -b gnome

The Debian system is great but I just find olm very easy to use.




More information about the wellylug mailing list