I am really new to this, but I noted the yum application in my recent fedora core 3 install.
by keeping the yum repository aware of all the installed rpm's, and my download sites, all I have to do is type yum update, and away it goes.... I still keep an eye on the up2date icon/button/thingy/indicator on the tool bar, but when it goes from blue to red, I use the yum instead of up2date - it works, because when I'm done, the up2date indicator goes back to blue. I really like this cuz I want to easily keep updated stuff like mplayer&xine that fedora doesn't include. I got the idea from http://www.fedorafaq.org/ Has a few ideas..... AFAIK, it ought to work with any rpm based distro's. --- "Randall L. Rathbun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert raises an interesting question, do we simply > rely on the "preselected" > list of software for our Linux machine as set by the > distro, or do we branch > out and select other configuration managed sources. > > While having Red Hat 9, I was not happy with the > limited choices, so I > installed apt and got a smile on my face... that is > until the rpm manager > that Red Hat had did NOT know how to handle the new > rpm packages that apt > grabbed. > > I became quite dissatisfied after I ended up with > quite a mess, with compilers > complaining about missing libraries and paths and > all that, and having to > reinstall the identical packages that rpm -q said > were already there. > > So if you are running, say Red Hat, or Suse, or > Debian, or Mandrake, is there > a better choice than apt for branching out and > keeping software up to date? > > Randall > p.s. Or should we just keep source only?? (laugh) > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
