As a Mandriva (aka Mandrake) user, I used to use urpmi to install, urpme to remove and etc2 for package management. As a Slackware user, I used to use slapt-get and in Fedora, I am learning yum. I love it but in commandline. Why? because it is faster that way than using the gui front-end. I don't know why but they need to improve its speed.
Some useful examples of usage :
Check available updates (without installing anything) : yum check-updates
Check updates and install : yum -y check-updates
Search for a particular package using wildcard : yum list "ogg*"
Installing particular package : yum install ogg-vorbis.blablaba.fc6.rpm
Upgrading a package : yum update ogg-vorbis.blablaba.fc6.rpm
Default repositories provided by FC6 is good enough but lack of commercial and copyrighted packages. You need more than that. Notable repositories are freshrpms and livna. I personally added freshrpms as one of the repositories used by yum to install xmms-mp3, mplayer, dvdrip and some other packages. Thus enables me to hear mp3 and watch movies. I just found out that adding fedora's update-testing repository is risky. Don't add it unless you want to live at the bleeding edge and could afford to lose all your data. :)
How to add 3rd-party repos?
How to add 3rd-party repos?
Usually there are instructions on the websites on how to add their repos into your system or you can read my article on how to add livna and kde repositories. I read somewhere to not add both livna and freshrpms repos. Add ONLY one of them or conflicts of packages will happen. You have been warned!.
To add freshrpms repo, just run this command as root:
To add freshrpms repo, just run this command as root:
yum install http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/6/freshrpms-release/
freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm (all in one line.)
freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm (all in one line.)
5 comments:
I really appreciate you mentioning the need for adding repositories but not mentioning at all how that is done. Thanks!
Yes, how easy, yet how incomplete ;-)
thanks for the comments. I'll improve it. Keep them coming.
I used to hate yum since it was slow & sluggish. Nevertheless, yum in RHEL 5 has been improved and looks ok :)
My favourite 3rd-party repo's are ATrpms & Dag Wieers
yes. I agree especially if it is used with pirut (the gui front-end). Very slow.
apt-get is much much better. I just like it.
I added ATrpms and Dag Wieers to my article. Thanks.
The thing is, sometimes packages from different repos conflicted each other and make your system go beserk.
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