apt and yum help
 

Hey, Im running ferdora core 1 and I am wondering what apt and yum are and what they can do. Can somebody please help?

apt and yum are a way to install new packages and update existing packages. One advantage is that dependancies are resolved when installing.

You can run the following to update all the packages: 'yum update'
You can install packages with the following: 'yum install <package name>' ie: yum install gkrellm

APT is very similar except the update is 2 steps 'apt-get update' and then 'apt-get upgrade'

ON fedora I don't know if APT is installed by default but I think YUM is.