[nflug] Apt or yum

[anthonyriga]

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  I found the link for apt-get. 

--- anthonyriga <torrodimerda at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have had some problems when I did upgrades on
> Fedora
> and it took forever too and broke libs. I have heard
> that upgrades be done with apt-get distro-upgrade.
> Im
> guessing that yum dosent have a distro upgrade
> feature. 
> 
> I remember when I use to run Redhat 9 I think and
> you
> could upgrade your desktop to Xandros desktop. I
> dont
> remember  what tool that was it worked great in
> making
> the changes. After using Macs here at work linux
> community can learn some stuff from Mac. A nice
> software raid tool in Liunx would be nice too.
> 
> --- Darin Perusich <Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > while i can't comment on redhat/fedora i can
> attest
> > to the fact that
> > upgrading SuSE is a seamless operation. i've
> > upgraded all of the
> > production servers in use here from SuSE 9.0 to
> 9.1
> > to 9.3 and some to
> > 10.0 and never had one problem.
> > 
> > anthonyriga wrote:
> > > I know upgrading Linux dists dont work that well
> > clean
> > > installs are better but I was wondering if its
> > > possible to use yum to do a dist upgrade for ex
> > from
> > > Fed 4 to 5 or 5 to 6? This way you dont need to
> > > download the cds just do the version upgrades
> with
> > > yum. Is there a version of apt-get for Fedora 5?
> I
> > > cant find rpm to download.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Darin Perusich
> > Unix Systems Administrator
> > Cognigen Corporation
> > 395 Youngs Rd.
> > Williamsville, NY 14221
> > darinper at cognigencorp.com
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