[ILUG] Dependencies

[Timothy Murphy]

On Wednesday 21 July 2004 14:00, John P. Looney wrote:

>  rpm -ivh
> http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/9/apt/apt-0.5.5cnc6-fr1.i386.
>rpm apt-get update
>  apt-get install gcc
>
>  You know it makes sense.

I think if you are on a Redhat/Fedora system
yum is preferable to apt/synaptic .
I found synaptic was liable to get into some sort of loop,
while yum has always worked perfectly for me.

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