yum equivalent in Red Hat Enterprises

[Ed Wilts]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 03:14:46AM -0800, jim martin wrote:
> Hi.. I want to know whether yum command is specificly
> for Fedora only?  Are we able to use yum command in
> RedHat Enterprises? I type yum in my RedHat Ent, but
> it shows command not found.  I want to use yum to
> download and install squid from the internet.  If yum
> is not available for Redhat Ent, what is the
> equivalent command then

You can certainly install yum and use it to install packages that are
not in the RHEL distribution but squid is available.  Use up2date.
I use yum to install packages from Dag's archive that Red Hat doesn't
provide (awstats, proftp, etc.)

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