Debian

Mon Sep 17 13:41:34 UTC 2007

musicman wrote:

> eg: debian uses the apt package management system, redhat uses rpm,
> SUSE uses YaST, gentoo uses emerge (I think that's all correct). Note
> that 5 years ago this was an issue, but these days most distros come
> with a "install with other system's package manager".

Please, dont make people more confused:
the equivalences are:

rpm - dpkg
apt - yum(fedora)/urpmi(mandriva)/yast(suse)

And yes, debian is a pain on its release cycle :)