On Monday 06 June 2011 17:03:36 Matt wrote: > I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert. > Giving Debian a whirl now.
Having made a desultary attempt in teh other direction, I feel your pain. :-( [snip] > In Centos when I want to update or add a package I do this: > > yum update There is an important and fundamental difference between yum update and apt-get update. Yum update, as you say, applies patches. Apt-get update just updates the database of packages on your computer. (I think that yum simply doesn't do this at all.) The equivalent of yum update is apt-get full-upgrade - but you must run apt-get update first, or you won't get anything new. That will apply patches. > yum install package_name > > To find a package I also frequently do something like this: > > yum list available |grep abr_package_name apt-cache search or aptitude search. After updating your database, of course!! > To get ssh going I finally did this from console: > > apt-get install openssh-server > > It demanded I plug the USB CD-ROM back in. Now I have SSH running and > can eliminate the keyboard and monitor. > > After getting ssh installed I edited /etc/apt/sources.list and > commented out the CD to get it to quit asking for the USB drive which > will not remain on the system. > > Now on Centos when I do 'yum update' after a fresh install I usually > get offered a good number of patches etc. When I do 'apt-get update' > I seem to get nothing. See above. > > So are there really no patches available or am I doing something > wrong? How do I get it too download and install new packages with > apt-get or whatever rather then using the CD? Again, see above! > Is there a FAQ or something out there for users coming from CentOS to > Debian? I couldn't find one in the opposite direction. :-( I just had to read up about yum and work out the differences for myself. I fear that I gave up rather soon. Running Fedora was just too much like trying to wade through treacle. Especially as the book I had bought from Fedora documentation told me zilch about the system, but explained in detail how to use OpenOffice.org. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
