Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:49:06 +0000 From: Robert Slade <bsd@bathnetworks.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rpm equivalent to 'pkg_add -r'? Message-ID: <1137487746.12144.34.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <EF55CD79-4C0D-431D-8AAF-51A0BD4AA9FA@u.washington.edu> References: <20060117003256.P28752@ganymede.hub.org> <43CC9A1C.5060707@altern.org> <EF55CD79-4C0D-431D-8AAF-51A0BD4AA9FA@u.washington.edu>
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On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 08:36, Garrett Cooper wrote: > 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 To clear up a couple of points: YUM is a Redhat tool but is a command line one. It works on all Redhat derived systems not just Fedora. BTW Fedora is not made by Redhat but is sponsored by them - they use it as a test platform. What I don't understand why the OP is installing Linux Apachie2 from rpms when there is a perfectly good port for BSD which handles the dependencies and the different locations of files, scripts etc. Rob
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