[yellowdog-announce] Updating Yellow Dog LInux via apt and yum

[Dan Burcaw]

Yellow Dog Linux users:

apt-get
This tool is a port (to the RPM package system) of Debian's utility by the
same name. It replaced "yup!"  last year with the release of Yellow Dog Linux v2.3.
It is a very simple means of updating your local applications with 2 simple commands:

	apt-get update
	apt-get upgrade

... as well as installing new applications:

	apt-get install [app_name]

More information is available:
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/apt-get.shtml


yum
This tool is a complete rewrite of 'yup!" ('Yellow Dog UPdate' became 'Yellow Dog 
Update, Modified') through the effort of Seth Vidal at Duke University
(http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/).  Yum now ships with Yellow Dog
Linux 3 and is the preferred update mechanism.

Well beyond the original capabilities of yup!, yum is a powerful upgrade 
utility with advanced functionality as described here:

http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/yum.shtml