I'm not trying to
start a flame war or anything (seems like most of the internet links I
found were), but how will I be updating packages on fedora? I think I
have my choice between rpm or apt-get? Is one preferred?
rpm is the fedora package manager.
apt-get and yum are two different front ends to rpm that work with package repositories so that when you request package A the depends upon package B, it will get both for you.
Which is one better?
I prefer yum - it was designed with rpm in mind. apt-get was designed with Debians packaging system in mind and was ported to work with rpm's.
Fedora comes with yum.
I recommend adding the Fedora Extras repository (use Fedora Stable) and the three livna.org repositories (use stable, testing, development)
http://fedora.us/ http://rpm.livna.org/
I've attached my personal FC2 yum.conf file, but those websites above will have instructions for using either yum or apt-get with them.
If there are articles or other documentation that you know of, feel free to answer with a link instead of telling me something I could read elsewhere.
I'm actually working on writing a short one, but I'm waiting for FC3 to go gold since it uses a different (better imho) config files, where you can add a repository by just putting a file into a directory and not have to edit the main yum.conf file.
But if you google for yum you should find plenty of them.
[main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 retries=20 [base] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ [updates-released] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ ### additional repositories # # rpm --import http://rpm.livna.org/RPM-LIVNA-GPG-KEY # ### [fedora-us-2-stable] name=Fedora Linux (stable) for Fedora Core 2 -- Fedora US mirror baseurl=ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.stable [livna-stable] name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable) baseurl= http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable gpgcheck=1 [livna-unstable] name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable) baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/unstable gpgcheck=1 [livna-testing] name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing) baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/testing gpgcheck=1 #[updates-testing] #name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/$releasever/$basearch/ #[development] #name=Fedora Core $releasever - Development Tree #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch/
