apt-get (Pete's notes)

Apt-get is the Debian package management system. You can get apt-get to run on Red Hat systems. Web to the apt4rpm home page.

rpm -i apt-0.5.15cnc6-4.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm apt-get update apt-get -s upgrade apt-get upgrade

This said it wanted to remove postfix and install sendmail, so I cancelled. Then I added "postfix" to the "HoldPkgs" section of /etc/apt/apt.conf and ran it again. It updated 4 packages. Cool.

On a Debian system, to find out what files are part of a package, do dpkg -L package-name.

Pete Siemse

Last modified: Thu Mar 10 10:21:45 MST 2005