[PLUG] A Simple Question [apt-get]

Dan Young dan_young at parkrose.k12.or.us
Wed Aug 20 13:05:03 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 12:26, Jeff Blain wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:55:37AM -0700, Bruce Kingsland wrote:
> > Hold it... I thot apt-get was a debian tool. How does it end up in redhat?
> 
> apt-get was ported to rpm based distros a while back. Even though I have found it to not work quite as well as it does on Debian itself, it still works great.

yum (Yellowdog Updater, Modified) is an alternative to apt for RPM based
distros.

http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/

-Dan Young
-Parkrose School District





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