Mistake installing programs? -Beginner-

[Ben Steeves]

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 17:31:55 -0500, Bradley (FC2 List)
<fedoralist at thingbuilder.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the help.
> up2date also says the the packages are updated even though the Add/Remove
> Applications says they aren't there.

Add/Remove Applications is a distraction.  Don't bother with it,
unless you have a slow/dial-up internet connection, in which case it
may be marginally useful to install applications shipped with FC off
of the install media.

If you have a decent internet connection, just use up2date or yum and
pull the most recent version of the application off the 'net (you can
get a list of available packages with "yum list" and get info on any
particular package with "yum info {package name}".

If having an easy to administrate/patch/upgrade system is important to
you, try to stick to using software repositories and plugging them
into yum/up2date (they both use the same repo architecture, so what
works in one will work in the other).

You can find links to many repos by searching the archives, but some
of the best/most important are:

www.freshrpms.net
www.atrpms.net
www.fedora.us
www.livna.org

...you can find instructions on inserting them into your repo list on the sites.

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