how the hell do i install?

[Andy Green]

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On Thursday 18 March 2004 08:05, Pinco wrote:

> where can I learn more about the differences among rpm, yum and apt?

www.rpm.org has some good info on the insides of RPM.

The deal is that RPM is a "package", kind of like SETUP.EXE in the windows 
world.  It contains all the files for a program, and often some scripts that 
set things up on install and uninstall cleanly if the RPM is removed from a 
system.

yum, apt, and up2date all live on top of RPMs, they allow you to install a 
program RPM and any dependency RPMs in one step.

Dependencies are other programs that the main program needs.  In Linux it is 
far more common to lean on other programs than in Windows, since they cost 
nothing and can do a lot of the work for you.  So many programs come with a 
list of other programs they need.  The RPMs contain this list, and yum, apt 
and up2date are all ways to automatically reach out and get any of these 
dependency RPMs you don't already have in one step and install the whole 
shebang.

up2date is in fact based on yum internally, so the choices are apt and yum.  I 
used both and they both seem to work fine.  Each has a config file which says 
where to go to get the updates that you need to set up, after that it is 
automatic and easy.

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