Apt-get equivalent in fedora

[John Moore (Linux Server)]

Try Yum Extender (http://linux.rasmil.dk) for a great gui frontend for
yum.

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 09:43 -0400, Temlakos wrote:
> Chris Jones wrote:
> > 
> >> Strange. up2date isn't able to connect to the rhn website, and when I
> >> go the the website myself, I see there a login page but anyway I'll
> >> try yum or would install apt-get
> > 
> > 
> > I recommend you ditch up2date and switch to another tool such as yum or 
> > apt-get (if you want guis, these are also available such as kyum for yum 
> > and synaptic for apt-get.). Up2date has always proved rather unreliable 
> > for me.
> > 
> 
> The only reason why I would want a GUI is to aid in browsing available 
> packages. For simple updates to existing packages, I don't need a GUI. I 
> just type "yum -y update" (as a SUperuser, of course) and if it can find 
> packages to update, it does its job, and a lot more smoothly than 
> up2date ever did. (It also shows me what it's doing while it does it.)
> 
> But when I want to know what packages are available, I have a problem. 
> If I list them in a terminal window, the list will shoot off the 
> scale--and backward scrolling of a terminal window sometimes doesn't 
> work right. (Is that an X issue, or something else I can fix?) The GUI 
> would at least let me browse a list, look at its description, and decide 
> whether to take it or not. That's why I liked synaptic so much--before 
> the new apt package on at-stable broke it. (Axel has a fix, I 
> understand, but at last report it's in  "bleeding.")
> 
> Is kyum the GUI for KDE? What GUI's are available for yum in Gnome?
> 
> Temlakos
> 
John Moore
Manager, IS
Quality Care for Children
Atlanta, Georgia
404-479-4180


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