• krashmo
    80·
    7 months ago

    I appreciate the effort put into this but if answering yes to “are you new to Linux?” leads to the follow up question “apt or rpm?” then there’s a problem.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      720·
      7 months ago

      Exactly. One is a package format and/or local package utility, and the other is a frontend to do downloads and updates for that local package utility.

      Should be “rpm or dpkg” — assuming that we’re excluding the other options — and then if someone chooses RPM, you can start talking about the frontend:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager

      Front ends

      Several front-ends to RPM ease the process of obtaining and installing RPMs from repositories and help in resolving their dependencies. These include:

      • yum used in Fedora Linux, CentOS 5 and above, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and above, Scientific Linux, Yellow Dog Linux and Oracle Linux
      • DNF, introduced in Fedora Linux 18 (default since 22), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, AlmaLinux 8, and CentOS Linux 8.
      • up2date used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS 3 and 4, and Oracle Linux
      • Zypper used in Mer (and thus Sailfish OS), MeeGo,[16] openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise
      • urpmi used in Mandriva Linux, ROSA Linux and Mageia
      • apt-rpm, a port of Debian’s Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) used in Ark Linux,[17] PCLinuxOS and ALT Linux
      • Smart Package Manager, used in Unity Linux, available for many distributions including Fedora Linux.
      • rpmquery, a command-line utility available in (for example) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
      • libzypp, for Sailfish OS

      Then for dpkg, you can choose from among aptitude, apt, apt-get/apt-query/etc, graphical frontend options like synaptic that one may want to use in parallel with the TUI-based frontends, etc.