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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: mobrien_12 on 13 March 2004, 02:23

Title: Fedora question
Post by: mobrien_12 on 13 March 2004, 02:23
I'm thinking of putting Fedora on a couple of computers.  One thing I would like to know before I go download it:  what update/patching mechnaisms are available for fedora.  

For years I'd just download rpm's off mirrors and rpm -Fvh them, but I found that up2date would really save me time.  If I go to fedora, am I back to ftp'ing RPMs?
Title: Fedora question
Post by: worker201 on 13 March 2004, 02:30
That's what I do.  I can never get the damn updater working properly, and this seems to be a fairly common thing.

There's been a lot of packages specifically designed for Fedora recently. Here's a site that has some good ones:

http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/fc1/ (http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/fc1/)
Title: Fedora question
Post by: insomnia on 13 March 2004, 05:49
quote:
Originally posted by M. O'Brien:
I'm thinking of putting Fedora on a couple of computers.  One thing I would like to know before I go download it:  what update/patching mechnaisms are available for fedora.  

For years I'd just download rpm's off mirrors and rpm -Fvh them, but I found that up2date would really save me time.  If I go to fedora, am I back to ftp'ing RPMs?


*Synaptic:
http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/redhat/fedora_1_apt-get_must_have.html (http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/redhat/fedora_1_apt-get_must_have.html)
Title: Fedora question
Post by: restin256 on 14 March 2004, 10:31
Or, apt-get, which is the command line tool of synaptic. It was used in RedHat and is therefore implimented in Fedora just the same.

But, since you've been using Linux for years, I'd assume you knew that.

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Title: Fedora question
Post by: buzza24 on 15 March 2004, 01:03
quote:
Originally posted by insomnia:


*Synaptic:
http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/redhat/fedora_1_apt-get_must_have.html (http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/redhat/fedora_1_apt-get_must_have.html)



Yes, I have Fedora running on my server at the moment but I am thinking taking it back to RedHat 9. Apt-get does seem to work to well on the server, nor does much else. It might be the way I have it set up but I have had many troubles with fedora every time I have tried it. All-in-all, It will work, and apt-get is the easiest way to go.
Title: Fedora question
Post by: insomnia on 15 March 2004, 03:33
quote:
Originally posted by Buzza24:



Yes, I have Fedora running on my server at the moment but I am thinking taking it back to RedHat 9. Apt-get does seem to work to well on the server, nor does much else. It might be the way I have it set up but I have had many troubles with fedora every time I have tried it. All-in-all, It will work, and apt-get is the easiest way to go.


Could you give an example about what went wrong?
I've never been a big RH fan, but IMO, Fedora is the best RH-based system so far.
Also, Fedora is already more supported than RH9.

APT4RPM improved alot.
Start with freshrpms and dag. They try to be fully compatible.

Synaptic is a nice extra.
Title: Fedora question
Post by: enjoijeff on 25 March 2004, 02:09
Synaptic is awesome... so fast..