[ltp] Slackware on T42?

wes schreiner linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 30 Dec 2004 06:00:35 -0600


morpheus wrote:

>>The only RPM hell I have experienced is the stupid dependencies
>>related to Red Hat's retarded GUI administration tools, which have
>>sound events so they require GNOME sound, and GNOME and libogg, etc. 
>>On servers.  Oi.  I'm hating Red Hat more and more with each release
>>and wish we could have more systems with SuSE. Debian is out of the
>>question because most of the systems don't have direct internet
>>access.
>>
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>I've installed apt on my Fedora distro and don't muck around with yum,
>up2date or "Red Hat Network" GUI crapola.  Apt handles RPMs just fine,
>  
>

Where are you getting packages from?  What's in your 
/etc/apt/sources.list file?  Can you run apt-cache?

wes