I know that I had read about Apt for Red Hat and Fedora before, but it was mind boggling to see it in action. I was talking to Erik about updating RH/Fedora and eventually found my way to ayo.freshrpms.net. I don’t have any experience with Yum, but the thought of running Apt on a fresh Fedora box excited me.
After grabbing Apt for Fedora, I issed the following commands (I didn’t include the list of packages):
[root@localhost matt]# rpm -Uvh apt-0.5.15cnc3-0.1.fr.i386.rpm
warning: apt-0.5.15cnc3-0.1.fr.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547 b
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:apt ########################################### [100%]
[root@localhost matt]# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386 release [1990B]
Fetched 1990B in 0s (5305B/s)
Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386/core pkglist [1445kB]
Get:2 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386/core release [151B]
Get:3 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386/updates pkglist [288kB]
Get:4 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386/updates release [157B]
Get:5 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386/freshrpms pkglist [159kB]
Get:6 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386/freshrpms release [161B]
Fetched 1893kB in 9s (202kB/s)
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
[root@localhost matt]# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded
[ ... big list of 106 packages goes here ... ]
The following NEW packages will be installed:
[ ... 5 packages here ... ]
106 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 206MB of archives.
After unpacking 26.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
I said yes to the prompt, and apt downloaded installed everything for me. *Bing* System up to date. From this sources.list, it looks like you can make Apt work all the way back to Red Hat 6.2. You should be able to apt-get install just about anything you need as long as it is in the repository.
Of course, don’t use this on an important system without reading a lot about it first. It will help me keep my fedora test box up to date though.