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You can use
yum update (to upgrade all packages )
and
yum update <packageName> (to update individual installed packages)
This works on a Fedora and/or CentOS and/or Redhat EL systems
You can also use
yum install <packagename> or yum install <RPM Name or web path> (to install packages on these systems as well)
There is an ...
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Although I found no online page that would describe this, the # apt-get
upgrade alternative on Fedora seems to be # yum update.
From the man pages of yum:
update --- If run without any packages, update will update every
currently
installed package. If one or more packages or package globs are
specified, Yum will ...
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This kind of error messages can appear if you try to install a package whose previous installation got aborted without completing.
rpm by default won't install a package if any of the file it needs to install already exists in the filesystem. So, if a previous installation aborted and some files were left behind, all succesive attempt will fail. The error ...
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Before Fedora 17
None of the Red Hat distros prior to Fedora 17 included the ability to do dist-upgrades as you've asked. This had been a long discussed option on many peoples' wish list but had never been implemented.
But before we start a clarification...
According to the Upgrading topic in the wiki, there was a method
where you could put a DVD in ...
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1. Why doesn't apt-get -f install fix my issue?
In a sense the sudo dpkg -i skype-debian_4.1.0.20-1_i386.deb is installing a package in a broken state into your system, and the sudo apt-get install -f is an attempt to try and get apt to resolve your now broken setup by installing any missing dependency libraries.
The major drawback with this approach is ...
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As you do not seem to be aware of compiling and building software, this may be really tricky for you to get running. So I'd suggest to try the ubuntu Prebuilt-Packages. This is not the most recent version available, but will eventually be updated.
So do this:
Open a Terminal( Press ALT+F2 -> Enter "xterm")
sudo add-apt-repository ...
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You would get the error message when running apt-add-repository if that package is installed but the command is not found.
First check if /usr/bin/apt-add-repository exists or you can run:
dpkg -L python-software-properties | xargs ls -d > /dev/null
to see if any of the file from python-software-properties are missing.
If there files missing try:
...
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Quoting the TeXLive & Debian documentation:
Tell APT about your TeX Live installation by building a dummy package
using equivs:
$ aptitude install equivs # as root
mkdir /tmp/tl-equivs && cd /tmp/tl-equivs
equivs-control texlive-local
# edit texlive-local (see below)
$ equivs-build texlive-local
$ sudo dpkg -i ...
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