Apt-get equivalent in fedora

[Deboo Geek]

I installed yum but running yup update, just sleeps t here, nothing happens

# yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base

Nothing happens for several minutes after this and I have to press
Ctrl-C. yum --help also doesn't tell anything much or there is no
verbose option either. What should I do?

I'm using a proxy, is that the problem? Where do I configure that?
/etc/yum.conf doesn't have any such mention



On 4/28/05, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 10:32:20PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote:
> > >Well, you could use apt-get itself -- it's available for Fedora. However,
> > >the "standard" program is called "yum", and it's basically equivalent. The
> > >main thing that'll take some getting used to coming from apt-get is that
> > >there's no separate "update" step to get new repository information -- you
> > >just do "yum install somepackage" and it automatically checks the network.
> > yes...apt-get does "update": "apt-get update" will update the repo
> > information and pull down any new listings it finds on the mirrors. Who
> > told you apt-get doesn't update?
> 
> What? No one told me anything -- I just know from using it. With yum, this
> information-retrieval step isn't separate -- it's implied by commands like
> "upgrade" or "install".
> 
> In fact, the yum command "update" eis equivalent to apt-get's "upgrade", and
> yum's "upgrade" is basically apt-get's "dist-upgrade". If you want yum to
> *not* get updated package information, give it the -C option.
> 
> 
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