¿What´s the command line pckge downloader in this Linpus?

Hi there.

I just want to use the command line as always to download. but i always used apt-get or aptitude, in Ubuntu.
I don´t know what to use here. I tried these, and synaptic or whatever, but i'm a noob here in Fedora.

I WANT to use the command line. I don´t want to use the package manager.



I want to download the manpages to have the manual info about commands, but... well... i can´t download it. Where the hell is it?

Thanks a lot !

 

It's Fedora-based so the package manager is yum. `yum install xxx' works for me. I don't believe there is a single package that contains all the missing manpages -- they are spread between packages. In any case, you'd need to install the man utility first

 

mmm. I see..

yum. What a name....


But is it as aptitude, that manages dependencies? it´s quite important for me. I just made a mess with my debian distribution long ago and had to format my computer xD....

man utility?. Ok, i´m quite a noob.

 

yum is a front-end to the rpm utility. rpm can keep track of dependencies, but it doesn't by itself have a way to retrieve missing dependencies. That's where yum comes in. yum will go to a defined repository and download whatever pieces are necessary to satisfy the dependencies, if possible. Of course, it won't be possible if, e.g., you've used rpm explicitly and installed something that is later than something that yum wants to download. That's why it's better to use the same repository all the time, if possible. Nearly all the software on my One came from the default repository defined by the vendor.

 

Great help!.

Yes, i didn´t add a respository. I´ll keep track of what you say...


Thanks a lot. Thanks.

 

There is a version of apt (for rpm) in the Fedora repository (and synaptic too, if you ever want the gui).

Code:

sudo yum install apt

By the way, the name yum comes from "Yellow Dog Updater Modified" or some such phrase, Yellow Dog being a RH/CentOS-based distro for PPCs

 

sudo yum install man ... installs the man command (but no man pages)
sudo yum install man-pages ... installs the man pages themselves (4Mb)

 

ok, neat!

Thanks a lot

 

See my post on this page on how to get apropos (used to search manual pages) running ...

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3988&p=26811&hilit=apropos#p26811

Cheers.