Fedora--Learn To Use Yum; [Was: needing Lynx]

[Scott Berry]

Right I did install lynx already I just was wondering if there was a special 
rpm for yum.  Thanks though and wish you the best with Moon Shine.

Scott

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 11:35 AM
Subject: Fedora--Learn To Use Yum; [Was: needing Lynx]


> Scott Berry writes:
>> Janina,
>>
>> I have a Fedora installation without Speakup as I do mostly ssh here. 
>> Are
>> there though lynx.rpms that are available from speakupmodified.org again?
>
> No, not from SpeakupModified.Org, because they're simply provided by the
> main Fedora repositories. Learn to use yum. You'll find it very helpful.
> In this instance you can querry for lynx as via one of the following:
>
> yum list lynx
> yum info lynx
>
> And, of course, you can install as in:
>
> yum install lynx
>
> PS: Lynx is always one of the first apps I install on a fresh
> installation of Fedora on. There are a few other apps I like to have,
> and I grab them all at once as, for example:
>
> yum install lynx ncftp keychain ...
>
> Using yum to its fullest will depend on whether you've installed
> configurations for the various repositores you need. The default
> installation will give you most of what you need, but it won't give you
> the SpeakupModified, which is why our yum instrucctions at:
>
> http://SpeakupModified.Org/yumming
>
> tell you to grab our key and our repository .rpm by hand first as a one
> time action. Similarly, you might want to get the rpm release file from
> http://livna.org in order to install mplayer via yum, just to cite one
> example that I suspect people might care about.
>
> Janina
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