Installing RPMs, apt, yum

[Olaf Olson]

First, below is a post from Andres Reitze. Andres posted this to the yum 
mail list and they politely referred him here.

Andres, there are several useful articles in the yellowdog FAQ pages, 
referring to yum and to rpm useage. Taake a look there. Meanwhile, there 
are probably more than a few here who would like to give you their 
advice. Keep in mind that the only way to be assured of seeing their 
posts is to subscribe to the YDL mailing lists.

YDL FAQ:

http://www.sharplabs.com:8668/space/start

YDL Mail lists:

http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo

I'd suggest subscribing to the newbie and general lists, as there are 
many people who think they are newbies, who write advanced questions and 
also many who think they are advanced and write newbie questions. We're 
polite enough to answer and smart enough *not* to answer when we don't know.

Anyway, here's Andres' post. Until he signs in, maybe you could manually 
add him to your reply.

Thanks

Olaf


Andres Reitze wrote:

Hi All,

I'm new to linux and started off with Fedora 3 at my office, liked it so 
much that I installed Yellow Dog 4.0 to my iBook 700 G3 yesterday, now 
it flyes compared to when it had OS X.  I love os X, but needed a change 
and found it in yellow Dog, well actualy in Linux..   loved linux... 

But I can't get the hand of installing RPM's and neither using the YUM 
thing, that I still don't understand how it works...  Up untill now in 
Fedora 3 I use APT-GET and Synaptic so it can be with a gui, graphical.  
In terminal I'm completly lost, can bearly install something, so I need 
Graphics bad...

How can I do this??? 

1.- I need to install the RPM i downloaded , the APT pakage...
2.- I need to get some Graphical interface for APT or YUM if posible to 
be able to install things like JAVA that I can't install...
3.- It all has to be in Gnome since i left out KDE from my iBook, hate 
it, to windowish, love Gnome...   2.8 is the one I use in Fedora 3...

Thx for any help you can give me...

thx,
Andres.-