duffmckagan wrote: >>1. Use apt or yum. It's easier, really. > Well I have good experience with Apt-get. > > I have absolutely no idea about YUM. > Can you point me to some tutorials which can help me learn them? apt and yum are pretty much the same functionality. With yum, you can skip apt's 'apt-get update' step, and apt-get install foo => yum install foo apt-get upgrade => yum upgrade -- Rex