Re: Apt-get equivalent in fedora

From: John Moore (Linux Server) (database1_at_qualitycareforchildren.org)
Date: 04/29/05

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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:27:34 -0400

    Try Yum Extender (http://linux.rasmil.dk) for a great gui frontend for
    yum.

    On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 09:43 -0400, Temlakos wrote:
    > Chris Jones wrote:
    > >
    > >> Strange. up2date isn't able to connect to the rhn website, and when I
    > >> go the the website myself, I see there a login page but anyway I'll
    > >> try yum or would install apt-get
    > >
    > >
    > > I recommend you ditch up2date and switch to another tool such as yum or
    > > apt-get (if you want guis, these are also available such as kyum for yum
    > > and synaptic for apt-get.). Up2date has always proved rather unreliable
    > > for me.
    > >
    >
    > The only reason why I would want a GUI is to aid in browsing available
    > packages. For simple updates to existing packages, I don't need a GUI. I
    > just type "yum -y update" (as a SUperuser, of course) and if it can find
    > packages to update, it does its job, and a lot more smoothly than
    > up2date ever did. (It also shows me what it's doing while it does it.)
    >
    > But when I want to know what packages are available, I have a problem.
    > If I list them in a terminal window, the list will shoot off the
    > scale--and backward scrolling of a terminal window sometimes doesn't
    > work right. (Is that an X issue, or something else I can fix?) The GUI
    > would at least let me browse a list, look at its description, and decide
    > whether to take it or not. That's why I liked synaptic so much--before
    > the new apt package on at-stable broke it. (Axel has a fix, I
    > understand, but at last report it's in "bleeding.")
    >
    > Is kyum the GUI for KDE? What GUI's are available for yum in Gnome?
    >
    > Temlakos
    >
    John Moore
    Manager, IS
    Quality Care for Children
    Atlanta, Georgia
    404-479-4180

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