up2date vs. yum

Joao Paulo Pires 198mdk at oninet.pt
Tue Jan 10 11:26:19 UTC 2006


Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:21:22 -0500 


 

From: Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> 


 

Subject: Re: up2date vs. yum 


 

 


 

Michael D. Berger wrote: 


 

>Which to use? The fedora web page recommends yum, and it sounds yummy, but up2date blinks attractively. 


 

>What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? 


 

>Thanks for your advice. 


 

>Mike. 


 

>-- 


 

>Michael D. Berger 


 

>m.d.berger at ieee.org 


 

 


 

Yum is easy to control at the command line. Up2date is barely maintained 


 

any longer. If you like the GUI type interface, pup in rawhide works 


 

fairly well. Pup is pretty much the replacement for up2date. Pup works 


 

with yum. 


 

 


 

There are also a few GUI front-ends for yum. GNOME and KDE versions. The 


 

front-ends work decent for the two that I tried before. Yum is my main 


 

tool for updating. Pup for when I do not want or cannot update certain 


 

packages that have conflicts. Yum plain sux when there are package 


 

conflicts. Jim


 

 


 

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If Should Up2date is barely maintained, should I uninstall Up2date?


 

Best regards, Joao.
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