[ale] Suse or Red Hat? (yes, yes, i know here we go again...)

[Geoffrey]

Preston Boyington wrote:
>>I am very interested in understanding how to upgrade and downgrade 
>>software right now.  I need to downgrade gcc from 3.3-23 to 
>>2.96 or get 
>>them to live side by side.  If I could apt-rpm gcc2.96 and it 
>>would do 
>>what was needed, I would jump for joy.
>>
>>Dow
>>
> 
> 
> is Suse rpm based?  (yes, that's how little i know of it)  how easy is it to
> upgrade/update?

SuSE is rpm based and it is a breeze to update.  Getting two compilers 
to live next to each other on one box can be a bit hairy, paticuliarily 
since there is such a big difference between 2.9* and 3.*

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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Think about it...

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