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| Newer page: | version 14 | Last edited on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:05:34 pm | by WikiAdmin | Revert |
| Older page: | version 12 | Last edited on Saturday, July 12, 2003 3:46:14 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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There are several main 'flavours' of PackageManagementTool in use in various LinuxDistributions. These include:
-; ''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".
+; ''rpm'' : Redhat Package Manager. Obviously, RedHat uses this, but [Mandrake] and a handful of others do as well. File format is [RPM]
.
+; ''dpkg'' : This is [Debian]'s package manager. KnoppixLinux
, [Progeny] and other LinuxDistributions are "Debian-based". File format is [Deb]
.
; ''.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'' : [GentooLinux]' version of source based PackageManagement, driven by a tool called ''emerge''.
; ''spells'' : SorcererLinux has a 'spell book' approach to source based PackageManagement.
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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
-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
+I never stated
that it taking an age was
a drawback for
''me
''. I was making the point highly obvious to anyone who read
it. Personally
, ''I
'' don
't really care how long things take to install. I rarely need something
in an urgent hurry, and its fine to leave things compiling over
the day while I'm at work
.
--DanielLawson
