Just an update. I now have both apt-get and yum installed. I have run yum update, and swallowed hard and said "y" when it wanted to update my kernel.
I was able to use the system to get k3b installed. (More about this on another post.) thanks Kevin --- Mark Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- 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
