Red Hat SE and packages

Thu Jan 27 16:09:48 UTC 2005

On January 27, 2005 09:32, William O'Higgins wrote:
> I have recently become an administrator of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES
> machine, and I am running into challenges all over the place.  I run a
> number of Debian machines, and so I am used to the ease and convenience
> of apt.  Is there some equivalent for Red Hat, or do I have to get RPMs
> manually?  I used KRUD for a year, so the Red Hat way is not totally
> foreign, but I went to Debian for a reason.  Thanks.

yum is what you are looking for. rpm is to dpkg as yum or urpmi (Mandrake's 
package manager) is to apt.
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