up2date vs. yum

[Jim Cornette]

Michael D. Berger wrote:

>Which to use?  The fedora web page recommends yum,
>and it sounds yummy, but up2date blinks attractively.
>What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
>Thanks for your advice.
>Mike.
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>Michael D. Berger
>m.d.berger at ieee.org 
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Yum is easy to control at the command line. Up2date is barely maintained 
any longer. If you like the GUI type interface, pup in rawhide works 
fairly well. Pup is pretty much the replacement for up2date. Pup works 
with yum.

There are also a few GUI front-ends for yum. GNOME and KDE versions. The 
front-ends work decent for the two that I tried before. Yum is my main 
tool for updating. Pup for when I do not want or cannot update certain 
packages that have conflicts. Yum plain sux when there are package 
conflicts.

Jim