Re: LUG: Is there a package manager for the NCSU Realm Kit? - Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:38:28 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: Is there a package manager for the NCSU Realm Kit?

From : Elliot Peele <ebpeele2@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:38:28 -0400

Up2date is an update agent. It is not a front end for yum, at lest in
its current incarnation. Both up2date and yum use rpm lib to interact
with rpm.

Elliot

On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 22:19 -0400, Will Lane wrote:
> What are progams such as yum and apt-get referred to as? I was under
> the impression that up2date was yum with a gui...im such a noob
>
> Elliot Peele wrote:
>
> >First off, yum is not a package manager. RPM is a package manager.
> >
> >What want to look at up2date, which can use yum repositories and is
> >already installed on the machine. Yum repositories are defined in
> >the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file.
> >
> >Elliot
> >
> >On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 21:56 -0400, Randall Barlow wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >> I am new to the list and to the Realm Kit, so I will probably have a
> >>lot of questions in the next few days. I am on a mission to install
> >>KDevelop on a recently installed Realm Kit machine on campus that I have
> >>presumably root access to (via sudo). The dependencies that I have come
> >>across so far have been a nightmare, and it doesn't seem that yum is
> >>installed on my machine. What's worse is that I seem to have problems
> >>with the version of Python on the machine when I try to install yum,
> >>even after I tried to update python. So, what I'm asking is has anyone
> >>installed yum, or any other package manager? Thanks!
> >>
> >>Randy Barlowr
> >>
> >>

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