Tomas wrote:
Colani1200 wrote:
Piru wrote:
RPM Hell
You normally don't use RPM directly. There are frontends like yum or up2date. (Like apt-get for dpkg).
Still works much less better than apt on lets say debian or ubuntu. And yes, i have tried redhat recently.
dpkg and rpm have similar functionality.
yum, smart, apt-* also have similar functionality.
The problem is that there exists different distributions that use rpm with incompatible structure causing RPM Hell when mixing them. For .deb files luckily there is at the moment only one reference and that is Debian.
I myself have also been in 'DEB Hell' when I tried to upgrade a Storm Linux installation to debian a few years ago. ATM I'm also having serious problems on my AmigaOne with debian after switching packages back and forth a few times between stable and testing.
At the moment I'm using Centos4 on my x86 PC with the smart package manager and ATRpms and a few other rpm repositories without any notice of 'RPM Hell'. I'm also using a remote virtual machine with debian installation without much problems.
greets,
Staf.
