new to Linux

[Mike Coleman]

"Christofer C. Bell" <cbell at jayhawks.net> writes:
> Actually, 95% of the time, installing software on an RPM based
> distribution consists of:
> 
> # rpm -Uvh package.rpm

On Debian (or Debian-based distributions), the equivalent would be

        # apt-get install gnumeric

or the slightly less intelligent

        # dpkg -i gnumeric.deb

One exceedingly cool thing about 'apt' is that it will pull in (via ftp) all
requisite packages (upgrading existing packages, if necessary) and install the
lot.

AFAIK, rpm doesn't do this, though I haven't looked closely in a while.  Does
anyone know of Red Hat equivalent for 'apt'?

--Mike

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