[Wylug-help] Fedora, Yum, Pup etc.

[Mike Goodman]

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 11:35 +0100, David Whiteley wrote:
> I am being encouraged to become friends with the Fedora distribution.  I
> have encountered a confusion, and would like a clue.
> 
> I have a system, and have it set up with Fedora.  It is behind a
> firewall, and YUM is working, and accessing packages in the local and
> remote repositories.  To achieve this I had to add a proxies.sh file
> to /etc/profile.d, in order to create the http_proxy, HTTP_PROXY,
> ftp_proxy etc. envars. 
> 
> As I am used to Debian, and the joys of aptitude /snip

I use FC and yum works fine for me although some of the packages are
dated. However, if you are used to aptitude, why not use it? How to with
FC is on the FC site.

> 
> Clues please?
> 
> Dave
> 

HTH. Mike