Command line rules with these tools. GUI is nice but real work gets done under the covers.
For a very good repository with just about any software package you will ever need I recommend. http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/ Read about it and read the getting started section to edit your apt sources.list then go to town. On Friday 25 March 2005 17:41, Crawford Rainwater wrote: > Kevin (and others): > > On the topic of apt vs. yum my thoughts and experiences here: > > apt is originally meant for Debian based systems or dpkg's. Synaptic is > the GUI for apt, and I highly recommend NOT using it from personal > experience and others' experiences. Most of the time, it crashes, so > the good old command line works wonders here. > > yum is YellowDog Update Manager. YellowDog is RH for PPC's, hence it is > more tuned to rpm's. It is very much like apt as well, but again, it is > designed specifically for rpm's to be used on RH, Fedora, CentOS, and > YellowDog. > > Kevin, install yum on the RH box and point it to the RH 9.0 > repositories. Mark mentioned that in a prior post on this thread. From > there, use yum as root, take it from there. > > --- Crawford > Linux+, LCP, LPIC-1, RHCT -- Mark Street, RHCE http://www.oswizards.com -- Key fingerprint = 3949 39E4 6317 7C3C 023E 2B1F 6FB3 06E7 D109 56C0 GPG key http://www.oswizards.com/pubkey.asc ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
