Newbie Package Manager Question for RH WS

azcoder2 · 03-12-2006, 12:09 PM

We recently purchased a couple of RedHat Enterprise WS at work for some Alienware laptops.

A long-time gentoo user, I am giving RedHat another try.

Is there no package manager like portage, yum, or apt for RedHat enterprise?

I am so used to emerge packageX. Is RPM the only tool included?

Also, I am very sed to using the gentoo forums for help - is there an equivalent RedHat Enterprise WS forum?

Thanks for any tips....

Lenard · 03-12-2006, 03:44 PM

Answering questions in the order ask;

up2date; https://www.redhat.com/en_us/USA/rhn/

yes; http://www.redhat.com/docs/books/max-rpm/

yes; https://www.redhat.com/apps/support/knowledgebase/

Tip; http://www.centos.org/modules/tinyco...index.php?id=2

azcoder2 · 03-12-2006, 05:32 PM

Thanks Lenard -

That helped.

Up2date does not contain everything I need - for example I need Subversion. Is there an easy way to get subversion (e.g. emerge svn), or should I just go get some rpms from RPMFind.net and install them?

I know how to compile and install whatever I need - I am just trying to clarify the "easy/standard approach" for RHEL WS....

Thanks again for your help

Lenard · 03-13-2006, 08:12 AM

Personally I perfer places like Dag Wieers site (yum and apt enabled);

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/yum/