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

[Steve Holdoway]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:10:12 +1300
Nevyn <nevynh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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ISTR 

  yum install apt

works, but I really wouldn't bother. A package manager is a package manager after all, and I've had just as many issues with apt as with yum ( well, except for that python overflow thing, but that was a long time ago ) over the years. I think you'll find CentOS 5.1 has been available since before christmas if that's of any use to you.

Steve
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Steve Holdoway <steve at greengecko.co.nz>