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Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian



On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:52:01PM -0600, Nitebirdz wrote:
> 
> Mind you, you can install "apt" for RPM and it works just fine too.  Of
> course, the amount of software currently available from the repositories
> is not nearly as large as in the case of Debian, and there is no way you
> can do a dist-upgrade.  Still, it does away with dependency hell.  As a
> matter of fact, Fedora also allows you to use other tools, such as "yum"
> in order to solve this problem.
> 

I must say Sturla Holm Hansen replied just to me letting me know that it is
possible to run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' in Fedora and it works just fine.  He
did it to upgrade from Red Hat 9 to Fedora Core 1, and there was no problem.
So, I stand corrected.

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