Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:36:42 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rpm equivalent to 'pkg_add -r'? Message-ID: <EF55CD79-4C0D-431D-8AAF-51A0BD4AA9FA@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <43CC9A1C.5060707@altern.org> References: <20060117003256.P28752@ganymede.hub.org> <43CC9A1C.5060707@altern.org>
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On Jan 16, 2006, at 11:17 PM, Gregory Nou wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> As the subject asks, is there an equivalent? I'm trying to >> install linux apache2 on a FreeBSD box, and would like have rpm do >> as much as possible as far as getting the dependencies and >> downloading them ... >> baring this, is there a better tool to use then rpm? >> thanks ... >> ---- >> Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http:// >> www.hub.org) >> Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy >> ICQ: 7615664 >> > look at the end of rpm man page, there is a section INSTALL AND > UPGRADE OPTIONS. > Concerning other tools, the poor experience I have with RH showed > me that rpm is a great tool. Maybe you may try yum, which, iirc, is > a GUI for rpm. > > Cheers, > > -- > Gregory Actually yum's a means for updating that's meant to replace the Redhat Network Tool or whatever it was called back in RH9.0 and RHE, which comes as primarily a command line tool I thought. As far as I know is only available for Fedora-a product primarily made for desktop users made by Redhat. -Garrett
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