[ale] SUSE package manager and install empathy

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

This leads me to ask general question, why do people say that rpm is bad but
.debs are better ?

In what way is rpm better/worse than .deb ?
Also why is Arch Linux not that famous ?

I hope I have not opened pandoras box.

-Narahari
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:04 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>wrote:

> It's an RPM distro. Which means, despite it being otherwise great,
> it's an abhorrent nightmare to deal with.
>
> On Monday, February 14, 2011, Narahari 'n' Savitha <savithari at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I have SLED.  It is what I have to use.  The way I understand from the
> pics I sent, system is looking for an ent. cd instead of going online to
> look for the packages.
> >
> > I just want to tell SLED, that instead of CD go to the gatech or novell
> site (since I am using ent and not open suse).
> >
> > One more thing, is SLED close to Redhat in terms of package aka rpm's or
> close to .deb's.
> >
> > Like if a software can be installed on Redhat (in my case MyEclipse) can
> it be instaled on SLED ?  What do I need to do for this to work right ?
> >
> > Thank you for your time and attention.
> >
> > -Narahari
>
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