<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/13/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gavin Stevens</b> <<a href="mailto:starshine@gavmusic.uklinux.net">starshine@gavmusic.uklinux.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:02:45 +0100<br>Jon Fautley <<a href="mailto:jfautley@redhat.com">jfautley@redhat.com
</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Pybe wrote:<br>> > Fedora uses an installer/updater similar to apt called yum this<br>> > works with RPM if your os has compatible repositories. Which from a<br>> > quick look CentOS uses
<br>> > <a href="http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=8">http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=8</a> open a shell<br>> > and type yum --help very similar to apt. yum install foo, yum
<br>> > update/upgrade etc.<br>><br>> Or you could install APT on the CentOS system. Check out dag's<br>> repository at <a href="http://dag.wieers.com/apt/">http://dag.wieers.com/apt/</a><br><br>Thanks to both of you for your help.
<br><br>CentOS is my first serious look at a distro using RPM & I have the<br>luxury of being able to learn it without it being critical - I have<br>three distros on two PCs (Ubuntu & Debian being the others).<br>
<br>Yum installed by default, I think, but apt could be useful if there is<br>something I want before I have mastered yum or rpm.</blockquote>
<div> </div><br>I have used apt for rpm in the past with mixed results it was certainly quicker than the earlier versions of yum but i think they have fixed the speed issue since. Definatley dont use yum and apt together, I have done that twice and both times ended up re-installing. Yum is really easy to use (very similar to apt - yum install app or yum update) I would recommend using yum straight off as CentOS chose it for a reason.
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<div>HTH </div>
<div>Pybe</div>