Help with yum

[Ionut Boldizsar]

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 11:25, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Scott Dahl wrote:
> 
> > I'm new to Fedora and I'm not familiar with "yum" as a way to
> > manage my system packages.  Can anyone point me to some RTFM's
> > or useful pointers on how to use it?  Thanks.  -Scott
> 
> ok, i have a *very* preliminary yum newbie doc online at
> http://www.kwlug.org/download.php.  it's nowhere near complete,
> and i'm still working on content, aesthetics, fonts, etc., but
> what's there should at least get you started.
> 
> what you'll find at that site are, among other things, a few
> PDF files named "rh_admin_manual-<blah>.pdf", which are just
> excerpts from a RH administration courseware manual i'm writing.
> i've posted a few excerpts to get feedback from some of the
> locals, so feel free to let me know what you think.
> 
> again, that yum excerpt is clearly incomplete, but it should
> get you started.  more content will go up this weekend.
> 
> rday

Perhaps there will be a frontend for yum, as it is synaptic for apt.
Then it will be real easy to manage yum.
But the cli syntax is straight-forward for yum as we speak :)

//ionut