Smart Package Manager

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Smart Package Manager

FAQ

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1. General
   1. What is Smart?
   2. Does Smart's wide support for packaging systems mean I can install .rpm packages on my Debian system? Or .deb packages on my RPM-based system?
   3. What repository formats does Smart support?
   4. Why is it called Smart?
   5. Why is Smart better than APT/YUM/URPMI/etc?
   6. How stable is Smart?
2. Usage
   1. Can I use Smart with APT/YUM/URPMI/whatever?
   2. Which interfaces does it support?
   3. I am using YUM, and I want to use my repositories with Smart, but "YUM" does not appear to be a valid channel format. What do I do?
   4. I want to install a new kernel package, but Smart says it is going to "upgrade" my old kernel packages. I don't want them removed, what should I do?
   5. What does the little yellow star mean?
   6. How do I add mirrors? How does Smart choose which mirror to use?
   7. Several channels provide an identically-named package. Which of the packages does Smart use? Can I change that?
   8. Can I lock a package so that Smart will never touch them?
   9. Where does Smart save its settings?
   10. I have a package on my disk. Can I use Smart to install it?
   11. I have a package on a remote URL. Can I use Smart to install it?
   12. How do I create a chroot environment using Smart?
   13. How do I keep the downloaded files after installation?
3. Annoyances
   1. Why smart loads/updates/saves the cache all the time? What is this cache anyway?
   2. Why is Smart so slow to me, but not on my friend's computer?
   3. I can't stop Smart with CTRL+C! Why?
4. Known issues
   1. Smart dies with "Assertion failed" on Fedora Core 4
5. Packaging Smart
   1. I want to package Smart for my favorite distribution, what should I do?
   2. What's the deal with that distro.py file?
   3. How do I convert a sources.list from APT into Smart channel info?