Apt-get equivalent in fedora

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 11:01:31AM +0530, Deboo Geek wrote:
> 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

Yep, that could be it. There's a man page for yum.conf which should explain
how to set up the proxy.

Plus, I believe the default repo list includes mirrors all over the world --
it might be worthwhile to trim it down to ones you know are fast and close.


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