adit_sen
In the zone
I've been using ubuntu for many years now, and am quite familiar with apt-get for installing / upgrading packages. My university serves house mirrors of the repositories so by changing the source.list file, I can use those serves which save me from using my internet bandwidth to update / install.
Now I've recently installed Fedora 7 as well. I understand that there is no apt-get, but instead it uses yum. Now couple of things about this is troubling me
1. Each time I try to install a package (rpm), it tries to connect to the net to check for dependancies. If I'm not connected, it doens't install at all, citing that the servers could not be reached. The only way I can install packages are using the terminal, using the 'rpm -i' install method. How can I turn it off checking the internet each time? Why should I have to install using the terminal?
2. What is the equivalent of the sources.list file for repositories? How do I set it to download / check for packages and upgrades from my university servers the same way i do in Ubuntu? My uni serves are located at *mirror.curtin.edu.au/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/
Cheers
Now I've recently installed Fedora 7 as well. I understand that there is no apt-get, but instead it uses yum. Now couple of things about this is troubling me
1. Each time I try to install a package (rpm), it tries to connect to the net to check for dependancies. If I'm not connected, it doens't install at all, citing that the servers could not be reached. The only way I can install packages are using the terminal, using the 'rpm -i' install method. How can I turn it off checking the internet each time? Why should I have to install using the terminal?
2. What is the equivalent of the sources.list file for repositories? How do I set it to download / check for packages and upgrades from my university servers the same way i do in Ubuntu? My uni serves are located at *mirror.curtin.edu.au/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/
Cheers