[H-GEN] SMALL RPM PROBLEM

Byron Ellacott bje at apnic.net
Wed Feb 12 00:52:53 EST 2003


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On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 14:07, Greg Black wrote:
> | rpm -Uvh foo.i386.rpm
> | rpm -e foo.i386.rpm
> | rpm -e foo is what you want.
> to install it, then the tool you're condemned to use is just
> broken.  (This afflicts the FreeBSD packages as well, it's not
> just a Linux thing.)

Hence,

$ apt-get install foo
$ apt-get remove foo
$ apt-get show foo
$ apt-get source foo

...

debian, it's good for what ails you!

-- 
Byron Ellacott <bje at apnic.net>
APNIC

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