apt-rpm vs. apt4rpm

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

Michael Hipp wrote:

> Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
>
>> What do want to do:
>> - use the apt tool as a rpm packet management utility
>
It's very handy indeed. E. g., If you point apt's sources.list file to 
the repositories at
    http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/
then the simple sequence|
||
apt-get update|
| apt-get install kde|
| apt-get dist-upgrade|

will download and install the latest and greatest KDE distribution for 
Redhat.

>
> I just want to use apt to update my systems and install new software. 
> Everything I've read makes it sound very superior to just attempting 
> it via rpm.
>
>> package from http://freshrpms.net, partly as a replacement for the 
>> up2date tool to keep my Redhat 9 system uptodate.
>> apt-rpm, as I understand it, is similar to this, but I have never 
>> used it.
>
>
> I didn't realize the freshrpms.net tool was different than apt-rpm. 
> One more thing to look into. 

I don't know if they are really different; both should supply the core 
tool apt-get, and synaptic, if you like to have a gui interface that 
really works.

>
>
> Does apt preclude the continued use of RedHat's up2date tool?

not at all; I still use up2date from time to time. Among other reasons 
(the Planet CCRMA collection of music tools and the above mentioned KDE 
for Redhat project make use of apt) I have apt-get at hand in case 
Redhat will stop their free "demo" up2date service ...
Klaus