Questions about Fedora

rg grant at tuins.ac.jp
Mon Nov 24 04:27:16 UTC 2003


Alexandre Oliva wrote:

>On Nov 23, 2003, <sreis at pobox.com> wrote:
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>>3. I read somewhere that is is possible to use APT with Fedora. Is this
>>true ?
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>>You can use RHN (up2date) and yum, I'm not sure about apt.
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>up2date can use apt repositories, and there are apt-compatible
>repositories containing Fedora Core 1 and its updates.  There are apt
>packages available as extras for Fedora as well, in case you'd rather
>use apt command lines (or synaptic) than up2date.
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http://ayo.freshrpms.net/ has the apt/synaptic stuff and freshrpms to 
boot - all works quite nicely. Download the Yarrow-specific version of 
apt first, download synaptic with apt, and you are ready for action.  
up2date is a pain in the posterior.

rg





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