go to fresh meat and install apt-get.
it's the best thing you will install on that box.
auto install A/P/M in like minutes with all the dependencies.

my knoppix OS install is kernel 2.6.11
RTTP runs on RHEIII with some FC2 stuff installed.

Have you tried Synaptic?

once my build is done I'll go install apt-get. this is basically a beta web-dev box, so it's gonna be stripped down to almost nothing. we're testing a new online classroom platform, and I'm busy writing PERL scripts and shell scripts to quickly import the XML and install a new class.

As far as I know, Synaptic and apt-get pretty much do the same thing, with Synaptic being a GUI version of apt-get. I use ubuntu breezy (final version was released like a week ago) linux, and it comes with synaptic and apt-get, making updates and installing new progs so easy. With synaptic it takes about 30 seconds to turn your box into a webserver with apache, php and mysql. ubuntu is my first attempt at using linux, and i'm suprised apt-get/synaptic don't come with other versions of linux.

Xammael said:


Synaptic is in some, but I'm pretty sure apt-get ends up in most distros because of popular demand. I know Slackware has both.

there's a version for osx too.. I just never used it.
only thing for osx I use is macpdate.

I used to use yum with fedora and other distros, but lately its been ubuntu breezy with apt-get. Still havn't got around to trying gentoo/emerge yet.

I tried yum on fc2 and it didn't work.
at work I use debian based knoppix so apt-get is were its at.
though... I broke apt on RTTP... oopies.

bump for mysql and varchar goodness

as for anonymous posting, you should leave it permanently as Anonymous, or just display either the first 3/4's of their IP, or their netmask... just for troll elimination purposes

GEEEEEEEEEEEKS!

please tell me one of you are watching star wars while you post this.

so? your point is?

just because we're all metal heads here, dosen't mean that we can't be geeks. In fact, I don't know many dumb metalheads... the dumb ones are the angsty pre-pube teens that listen to nu-metal and think their lives are awful

KeithMutiny said:

actually, I am, I've got it in my dvd rom drive in my work computer now... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Was that like a really long way of explaining that you ARE watching Star Wars right now?

Goddammit...
You see what happens when you post twice in a row?
You steal people's punchlines, that's what you do!

thats the way i took it

Wait...
I just posted twice in a row.
Well...
Three times, including this.