Redhat Apt-Get

I've heard people talking about Apt-Get but I've always been too embarassed to ask what it is and where I can find it. I searched google but I haven't come up with anything worth while. Can someone either explain it to me or provide me with a link so I can read about it and download it? I've tried man apt, man apt-get, man etc. but I haven't come up with anything.

Any help would be great! Thanks!

Apt is Debian's package management software but may have been ported to other distros of Linux. Here's a link to Debian's FAQ about APT

http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-uptodate.en.html#s-apt

Just a note, porting APT to a system doesn't make it as good a system as Debian's (there are still issues with package format, QA, etc.) </zealotry>

Anyway, here's the best starting point for RPM-based APT stuff:
http://freshrpms.net/apt/

Actually,theres a tutorial about install apt-get on red Hat 8:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1890&page=4

Thanks for all the help!

I followed the tutorial Tuxie provided and installed both the packages but when I ran apt-get update I got the following error:

[root@localhost Desktop]# apt-get update
Ign URL redhat/8.0/en/i386 release
Get:1 URL redhat/8.0/en/i386/os pkglist [1276kB]
Get:2 URL redhat/8.0/en/i386/os release [108B]
Get:3 URL redhat/8.0/en/i386/updates pkglist [151kB]
Get:4 URL redhat/8.0/en/i386/updates release [113B]
Get:5 URL redhat/8.0/en/i386/freshrpms pkglist [94.5kB]
Get:6 URL redhat/8.0/en/i386/freshrpms release [125B]
Get:7 URL redhat/8.0/en/i386/os srclist [152kB]
Get:8 URL redhat/8.0/en/i386/updates srclist [6295B]
Get:9 URL redhat/8.0/en/i386/freshrpms srclist [22.0kB]
Fetched 1702kB in 7s (231kB/s)
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: There are two or more versions of the package 'fetchmail' installed in your s ystem, which is a situation APT can't handle cleanly at the moment.
Please do one of the following:
1) Keep at most one version of the package in the system; or
2) If you do want to keep multiple versions of that package, lookup RPM::Allow-D uplicated in the documentation.

E: Error occured while processing fetchmail (UsePackage3)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/rpm/Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

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How can I find and delete the different versions of fetchmail that are on my system? Will that correct the problem?

Thanks!

Well, I'm assuming that you did this duplication using rpm somehow. If not, I'm lost (after all, I haven't used redhat for quite some time due to an extreme dislike for rpm).

At any rate, you can check what fetchmail packages you have installed with:
rpm -qa | grep fetchmail

Ideally, there'd only be one fetchmail package (not to be confused with fetchmailconf which I believe is a separate package in the rpms as well), but it sounds like you have two. If there's two, use rpm -e to remove one. If not, then your guess is as good as mine as to what hosed the system.