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2. Tools and RepositoriesModern Linuxes are rapidly moving towards a world in which physical
media are used for OS installation only, with updates being fetched and
installed by tools querying Internet repositories. You'll need to know
a bit about three of these tools: - apt-get
Grandaddy of the network package installers. Originally
from Debian, later ported to RPM-based distributions. Not shipped with
Fedora Core, but sometimes useful to have around because some repositories
don't support the other tools. The procedures in this HOWTO no longer
require you to use apt-get, but you should know it's there. - yum
yim (the Yellow Dog Updater, Modified), comes installed
with Fedora Core. It will help you download updates from the Fedora
repository, and from other repositories that carry Damned Things that
Fedora won't. I like it a bit better than apt-get (a s), as it seems to
grab package list updates automatically that apt makes you do
manually. - up2date
This is a shell around yum/apt (it can also
query a local directory on your hard drive). Most convenient of the
three; watching it is informative.
You also need to know about some repositories: - rpm.livna.org
A site, located outside the U.S. and beyond the reach of
the DMCA, that is dedicated to providing Damned Things that Fedora Core
won't carry. There is no official connection, and in fact the Fedora
people won't mention livna in their web pages or documentation for fear of
being slammed with a speech-suppressing lawsuit by the evil shitheads at
the DVDCCA, but the livna people track what Fedora does very
closely. Accessible via both yum and apt. - FreshRPMs
Best known of the alternate-RPMs sites. Carries a lot of
stuff that hasn't yet made it into Fedora Core, but also supports older Red
Hat distros as well. The main source for apt-get. Accessible via both yum
and apt. Unfortunately, it's known to have some serious library clashes
with livna and I do not recommend mixing the two. - http://macromedia.mplug.org/
The main source for packaged versions of Macromedia
Flash. Accessible via both yum and apt. - http://dag.wieers.com/apt/
The only place I've found pre-cooked Java and Java plugin
RPMs. Accessible via both yum and apt.
To set up your tools, you need to do the following steps: To enable up2date, add the following to
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources:
yum fedora-us-stable-fc1 http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable
yum fedora-us-testing-fc1 http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/testing
yum livna-stable-fc1 http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable
yum flash-plugin http://macromedia.mplug.org/apt/fedora/1
yum dag http://apt.sw.be/redhat/fc1/en/i386/dag
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You might have to change "1" to the latest Fedora Core
version number, if that's 2 or more. To enable yum, add the following to
/etc/yum.conf:
[livna-stable]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
baseurl= http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable
gpgcheck=1
[livna-unstable]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/unstable
gpgcheck=1
[livna-testing]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/testing
gpgcheck=1
[flash-plugin]
name=Macromedia flash-plugin site
baseurl=http://macromedia.mplug.org/apt/fedora/$releasever
[dag]
name=Fedora Core 1 Dag Wieers' repository
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/fc$releasever/en/i386/dag
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