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Using apt in an RPM World
Jun 23, 2008, 04 :30 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (5484 reads)

(Other stories by Dag Wieers)

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"Everytime I am surprised that people don't know that apt-get works on RPM-based distributions and works much better than the alternatives. Especially in a CentOS/RHEL environment where you have various distribution releases running, apt-rpm allows you to use the same apt version and the same apt features across CentOS/RHEL 2.1, 3, 4 and 5.

"In an attempt to persuade you to try out apt, let me denounce some myths about the current apt-rpm..."

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