On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:54:31 -0500
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> Tom Horsley wrote:
>
>> Huh? Synaptic is the one reason I might consider switching to
>> ubuntu. You want to talk deficient and awkward, compare packagekit
>> to synaptic and decide which is deficient.
>>
> I have never had rpm, yum or PackageKit crash on me, but that is a
> signature trait of Synaptic. It generally crashes about halfway
> into downloading about 400 MB of updates, messes up the package
> list of pending updates in the process, and it becomes impossible
> to resume the update. And add to that, that in getting the 400 MB,
> you just spent about 2-3 hours waiting and still didn't get the
> system updates. I speak from experience and have done the procedure
> more than 2 or 3 times, with the same frustrating result, and not
> with the same release or installation media.
Can't you still just:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
in a terminal window and save the GUIness for when you want to pick a
new package or two?
Dag burn it, Les, there you go again using logic ;)
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