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

[Daniel Pittman]

Nevyn <nevynh at gmail.com> writes:
> On Jan 20, 2008 6:49 PM, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
>> Nevyn <nevynh at gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> 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).

  "sudo -i" is probably better; it avoids the second process being
  involved and does the same range of stuff.

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

There isn't one.  Just use yum.

        Daniel
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