From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pop-a065d23.pas.sa.earthlink.net ([207.217.121.254]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CPcRT-0008AH-00 for ; Thu, 04 Nov 2004 02:53:59 -0500 Received: from user-10ib9c5.biz.mindspring.com ([65.37.165.133] helo=bruzos) by pop-a065d23.pas.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1CPcR4-0004bN-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Wed, 03 Nov 2004 23:53:34 -0800 Received: by bruzos (Postfix, from userid 501) id 033261002D; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 02:53:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 02:53:33 -0500 From: David Bruzos To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20041104075333.GA2825@bruzos> References: <20041104032753.GF4274@rednote.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: abcde for fedora? X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 07:54:14 -0000 Hi: Fedora comes with a package manager called "yum" which provides similar functionality to "apt". I like yum very very much. It is simple to use and very powerful. There are many yum rpm databases on the net too. Most software you would ever need you can get by typing: # yum install package1 package2 package3 ... The only disadvantage of "yum" is that it is much slower than "apt", because it is written in python. However, it does not really matter, because the handling of RPMS is performed by the "rpm" program, which runs at full speed... You might just see that it takes a long time to find dependencies and stuff like that. I use it on a 300 MHZ machine without any problems, so most people should not have problems either. David Bruzos On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:36:00AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I had used fedora rpm but hadn't found anything; will try the url you > suggest. And maybe using "apt" will make a difference. > > > -- > Cheryl > > "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup