Third party software manager?

Discussion in 'Linux' started by steven.chien, Jan 20, 2009.

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    steven.chien

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    I have enable to "advance menu", and I used the "Add/Remove" to install and uninstall software, but I found it not efficient enough, for example, it takes very very very long time to download and install all dependence needed, but I am just installing a small program "picasa", and I want to know if I should install a new package manager. What will be the different? and the most important thing, it won't break the system!

    Thank you!
     
    steven.chien, Jan 20, 2009
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    I avoid the graphical package managers myself.

    yum is an easy, efficient command line tool; provided you have the repo setup. If you are installing a downloaded file, rpm is the tool of choice.
     
    jrs, Feb 12, 2009
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