Re: LUG: Is there a package manager for the NCSU Realm Kit? - Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:19:29 -0400

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

From : Will Lane <will@jxxtech.[redacted]>

Date : Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:19:29 -0400

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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