The move to Linux-Things you need to know

It may not be quite as easy as you think...

Published on April 15, 2005 By PurrBall In OS Wars

Update: yum makes life easier. To install a package, for exaple, The GIMP, you would go ito terminal and type 'yum install gimp' or for Firefox, 'yum install firefox' etc. No more web searching!!

Comments (Page 7)

aimzzz

on Aug 29, 2005

Running yum made me understand RPMs better, i think--- is it correct that just because KDE.org has links to KDE with version numbers higher than mine, the updates are not necessarily compatible wtih the type of Linux on the PC? Yum specifically checked the Fedora repositories & I got the impression from the documentation that there may be version-specific dependencies that yum accounts for before it will install files from other repositories.

Does yum run in the background all the time, or does the user have to run it periodically to check for updates?

PurrBall

on Aug 30, 2005

It is quite difficult to install programs from source in Fedora.

yum can do 'more' when logged in as root.

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