yellowdog-newbie digest, Vol 1 #501 - 4 msgs

[Brian Knoblock]

Thanks a ton, yum seemed to do the trick.

Brian

on 6/5/03 2:01 PM, yellowdog-newbie-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com at
yellowdog-newbie-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:

> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 19:07:01 +0300
> From: Daniel Koskinen <dani@iki.fi>
> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: Apt-get problems 2 days running
> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> 
>> When I run apt-get it seems to not work at all with ftp.yellowdoglinux.com,
>> is there a problem with ftp.yellowdoglinux.com? Is there somewhere else I
>> can point apt-get? .
> 
> Brian, the usual advice I've seen seems to suggest you should use "yum". I got
> the 
> same errors, but running yum seemed to work fine. "man yum" will tell you a
> good deal
> on how it works. No idea why Terrasoft recommend using apt-get. Perhaps
> somebody
> wiser (or at least more knowledgeable) can tell more...
> -- 
> Daniel Koskinen
> email: dani@iki.fi
> web: http://www.iki.fi/dani