APT 4 PPC

[Eric Dunbar]

Unless you're an expert, I'd stick with the default package manager
provided with a particular distro. I thought yum solved dependency
problems (it seems like some list members swear by it... and they're
pretty knowledgeable).

yum is provided with YDL (& has been adopted back into Fedora, I
think). There are lots of packages available through yum (both
"official" and from third party repositories). Make sure you edit the
yum config file to point to a different (less used) server (unless you
do your update at 2 in the AM) before using it. Instructions on how to
do it and where to find mirrors of the official repository can be
found in the archives for this list. Then type "yum update". To
install apps (like FireFox) type "yum install firefox". Make sure
you're logged in as root when you do this.

Eric.

On 13 Nov 2004 04:52:55 -0500, Ivan <visional_freeman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was reading a post about the APT 4 RPM is a better package management
> for Linux. It seem that it some how can solve dependency problem and
> overall better control of package management. So thought of trying it
> but I was not able to download perl-xml-libxml at the APT4RPM sit. Does
> anybody know where can I download to make things easier for the PPC
> user?