On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 08:21 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> > wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Matt wrote: > >> I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert. > >> Giving Debian a whirl now. > >> > > [cut] > >> > >> yum update > > > > This becomes "apt-get update" in debian. > > No. It's not. This is an endless source of confusion for folks coming > over from RHEL land. "apt-get update" just resyncs your local > repository information, it attempts to install nothing. > > The equivalent apt command is "apt-get upgrade". The equivalent yum > command to "apt-get update" is "yum clean metadata; yum list", to > update the available package list.
As a German and a child from the 80's (44 years today) I started with SUSE Linux and IIRC they do use yum too, still have got Suse 11.2 installed, but I'm using yast2, if ever I should change something. Don't try to find equivalents, re-educate yourself. 2 Cents, Ralf PS: > Your other notes are helpful, but please try not to confuse a nice new > person with mismatched comparisons of existing commands that *don't* > have the same features between operating systems. I just went through > this with a recent switch from RHEL based systems to Debian, so it's > very fresh in my mind. Good that somebody knows about the differences. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1307710821.13487.115.camel@debian
