On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:12:09 +0200 Yves Goergen <nospam.list@unclassified.de> wrote: > Hi list, > can anyone explain the difference between dpkg (dpkg-deb, dselect...) > and APT (apt-get...) to me? What is considered the better one of both? > The APT manpage says, APT is still in development, but why create > another debian packager, if there's already one? apt is a frontend for dpkg. It solves dependencies and downloads debs from mirrors, and then passes them to dpkg, which installs them. -- -johann koenig Now Playing: A New Found Glory - Heaven Isn't To Far Away : Punk Goes Metal Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 15th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3169 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp
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