ezroller Posted January 4, 2003 Report Share Posted January 4, 2003 Antone else find the bliss of this app yet?forget urpmi, this is where its at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted January 4, 2003 Report Share Posted January 4, 2003 I have, I think the functionality is about the same as urpmi / rpmdrake. Synaptic wins in telling which is the dependencies needed or clashed, but a bit too rigid (for example when I tried installing the new k3b which clashed with arson). Urpmi / rpmdrake wins in telling which files are installed in the rpm with bigger hdlist. Anyway, I only use synaptic since texstar hosed his mandrake, losing his gpg keys and he doesn't want to rebuild and re-signs all his rpms so he goes exclusively synaptic. Since texstar is the only synaptic mirror I know, rpmdrake is still the main rpm installer for me. Oh.. the thing I like / dislike about synaptic is that all the rpms are downloaded and kept in /var/cache/apt/archives directory, including the old ones or previous versions, which is okay for me since I have about 17 gigs free in my / directory, but if some people have a smaller hard disk or partition, it could make people nervous about how their hard drive space just shrink so quickly if they don't know about this trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest smoketoomuch Posted January 4, 2003 Report Share Posted January 4, 2003 I have, I think the functionality is about the same as urpmi / rpmdrake. Synaptic wins in telling which is the dependencies needed or clashed, but a bit too rigid (for example when I tried installing the new k3b which clashed with arson). Urpmi / rpmdrake wins in telling which files are installed in the rpm with bigger hdlist. My experience with synaptic exactly - it seems more rigid in dependencies to me as well. Nevertheless, I like urpmi functionality (urpmq and urpmf). If you use Synaptic, there are three options in preferences: Leave downloaded packages in cache Delete downloaded packages after installation Delete obsolote packages from cache It seems to default to the first option, but you can change that. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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