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linux newbie here. I'm running Fedora 12 and I have a script for Ubuntu installing a bunch of packages using aptitude. I tried installing the packages using yum, but most of them aren't available.

The packages aren't very new or complicated stuff, is there any way get packages through aptitude on fedora? Or am I just going to have to find the Fedora equivalent of each package manually, for example the first package installed is g++ and of course this has a fedora equivalent.

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I think you'll just have to manually find the equivalent packages.

For example, g++ on Fedora is gcc-c++. libfoo-dev is generally libfoo-devel or foo-devel.

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This is what I ended up doing; it wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be looking for those differences in syntax. – user37974 Mar 21 '10 at 12:20
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Install YumEx , I think it goes for Yum Extended, it's a graphical interface like synaptic, it will help you.

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Aptitude is just a front end for APT. You can install both APT and Aptitude on your Fedora machine.

Apt can be installed through Yum (yum install apt), and Aptitude can be installed via apt-get.

Edit: Direct Link to Aptitude

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After apt-get update, apt-get can't find the aptitude package... – user37974 Mar 17 '10 at 22:42
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