System of Fedora Core

Scott Talbot talbotscott at cox.net
Mon Oct 18 14:43:18 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 22:24 +0800, edwardspl at ita.org.mo wrote:
> linux at glossolalie.org wrote:
> 
> > edwardspl at ita.org.mo wrote on 18.10.2004, 03:36:29:
> >
> > > Sorry,
> > > What about "yum" ?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > Yum will allow you to install/uninstall packages and will take care of
> > the dependancies for you. Maybe you need to have a look at
> > www.fedorafaq.org#installsoftware
> > hth
> > Thierry
> 
> I want to know what different between yum and rpm...

RPM will install, or erase rpm files, IF you have all of the necessary
dependencies (packages which are required by the package you are
installing).

YUM finds those dependencies and install all needed packages as one unit

	Scott
> Thanks.
> 
> 




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