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