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| Newer page: | version 12 | Last edited on Saturday, July 12, 2003 3:46:14 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 11 | Last edited on Saturday, July 12, 2003 3:39:24 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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; ''rpm'' : Redhat Package Manager. Obviously, RedHat uses this, but [Mandrake] and a handful of others do as well.
; ''dpkg'' : This is [Debian]'s package manager. [Knoppix], [Progeny] and other LinuxDistributions are "Debian-based".
; ''.tgz'' : [Slackware] uses [TarBall]s that include pre-and post install scripts.
; ''ports'' : This is the source based PackageManagementTool that [BSD] uses. Several LinuxDistributions use a similar idea.
-; ''portage'' : [Gentoo
]'s
version of source based PackageManagement, driven by a tool called ''emerge''.
+; ''portage'' : [GentooLinux
]' version of source based PackageManagement, driven by a tool called ''emerge''.
; ''spells'' : SorcererLinux has a 'spell book' approach to source based PackageManagement.
Frontends to these tools include:
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; ''apt'' : one of the best tools around that traditionally wraps dpkg, although there is a version that works for rpm. It was the first front-end to nicely handle dependencies: ''apt-get install foo'' will automatically download and install not only ''foo'', but also any unfulfilled dependencies ''foo'' may have.
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-I personally have used RedHat (rpm), [Debian] (dpkg / apt), and [Gentoo] ('portage' -- emerge). Of the three, RedHat rates worst for me, because I never really used up2date and so started getting annoyed with dependency hell. Debian and Gentoo are about the same in terms of ease of installation of a new application / upgrading packages, however Gentoo takes an age longer due to having to compile everything from source. --DanielLawson
+I personally have used RedHat (rpm), [Debian] (dpkg / apt), and [Gentoo|GentooLinux
] ('portage' -- emerge). Of the three, RedHat rates worst for me, because I never really used up2date and so started getting annoyed with dependency hell. Debian and Gentoo are about the same in terms of ease of installation of a new application / upgrading packages, however Gentoo takes an age longer due to having to compile everything from source. --DanielLawson
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Still that can hardly be construed as a drawback since the people who choose Gentoo do so precisely ''because'' it compiles everything from source. Certainly, it may have been a drawback for ''you'', but that doesn't make it one in the general case. Everyone will have to examine their needs themselves. --AristotlePagaltzis
