[nzlug] CentOS and the "joys" of rpm based systems

Nevyn nevynh at gmail.com
Sun Jan 20 19:10:12 NZDT 2008


On Jan 20, 2008 6:49 PM, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
> Nevyn <nevynh at gmail.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > My first problem is the tools. I am so used to Ubuntu and Debian that
> > I'm feeling quite lost. Commands like ifconfig and apt-get just aren't
> > there.
>
> [...]
>
> > As for ifconfig, I have no idea what the equivalent in Redhat based
> > systems is.
>
> ifconfig, found in /sbin.

My apologies for the whole ifconfig thing... I thought I had issued a
"su -" command, which would've given me the paths of the root user
("sudo su -" for you Ubuntu users out there).

No one knows of an apt-get which will work from within CentOS? (I've
always had issues with yum)



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