On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 10:32:20PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: > >Well, you could use apt-get itself -- it's available for Fedora. However, > >the "standard" program is called "yum", and it's basically equivalent. The > >main thing that'll take some getting used to coming from apt-get is that > >there's no separate "update" step to get new repository information -- you > >just do "yum install somepackage" and it automatically checks the network. > yes...apt-get does "update": "apt-get update" will update the repo > information and pull down any new listings it finds on the mirrors. Who > told you apt-get doesn't update? What? No one told me anything -- I just know from using it. With yum, this information-retrieval step isn't separate -- it's implied by commands like "upgrade" or "install". In fact, the yum command "update" eis equivalent to apt-get's "upgrade", and yum's "upgrade" is basically apt-get's "dist-upgrade". If you want yum to *not* get updated package information, give it the -C option. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
