From Fedora to Kubuntu - Part 1

One of my first chalenges has been moving to a yum free world. With Debian distros, 'apt' is package manager instead of 'yum'. I keep returning to this hurdel as I think "okey which package do I need," or "I wonder what this package contains." Well I found a great post giving the approximate equivalent between the package managers.


Mike from 'The Linux and Unix Menagerie' blog provides the following:
(included inline if Mike every decides to delete it - this is his original post)

Show package info: apt-cache show PKG - yum info PKG

Install package: apt-get install PKG - yum install PKG

Remove package: apt-get remove PKG - yum remove PKG

List the package that owns a particular FILE: Can't be done to my knowledge - yum provides PKG

List all files in an already installed package: Can't be done to my knowledge - Can't be done to my knowledge

List all files in an uninstalled package FILE: Can't be done to my knowledge - Can't be done to my knowledge

List all packages installed on your system: Can't be done to my knowledge - yum list installed

Check that all files from a package are installed correctly: Can't be done to my knowledge - Can't be done to my knowledge

Check that all files from all packages are installed correctly: Can't be done to my knowledge - Can't be done to my knowledge

Check that a package FILE is OK before installing: Can't be done to my knowledge - Can't be done to my knowledge

Fix an altered package installation: Can't be done to my knowledge - Can't be done to my knowledge

From Fedora to Kubuntu - Part 0

After going to linuxworld expo in San Francisco, and hearing/seeing all the Ubuntu hype. I decided to give Kubuntu (Ubuntu + KDE packages - Gnome packages = Kubuntu) a spin. I am still running Fedora on one of my work boxes, my home server, and my personal laptop.

I feared the transition from a Red Hat world view to a Debian view, but so far it hasn't been as bad as I feared.

Basic networking is a little different from Fedora to *buntu -- all my NIC configuration is /etc/network

I've come to realize *buntu does a minimalist install. This is not so much how my Fedora installs would go. I'd install everything I knew I would need and then just go. On *buntu you get a basic system install and then a few 'apt-get's to get the rest of the system going.