[Novalug] [Ma-linux] Fedora 13 Install

flakblas flakblas@me.com
Mon Jul 19 16:59:17 EDT 2010


Also, try 'aptitude search <pkg_name>' .

On 19 Jul, 2010,at 04:16 PM, American Dave Kline <novalug@soupy.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 03:47:09PM -0400, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
> > Who cares? Yum is 'mostly equivalent' to apt-get. Both take 'install',
> > 'remove', and 'update'. I can't remember if apr-get does 'search', or
> > whether you need another command for that.
> > Just learn yum, or at least the basic subset.
>
> A user that uses Debian might care. Yum isn't Debian's
> package manager, even though you can use Apt to manage Fedora. 'update'
> on Yum is very different from 'update' on Apt.
>
> You'll likely find an equivalent to 'yum list' with Debian's
> 'apt-cache', though I only use yum list when testing custom Yum
> repositories.
>
> I find 'yum search <pkg>' and 'apt-cache search <pkg>' most useful.
>
> -A. Dave
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