Re: yumex

[John Pilkington]

On 18/04/13 08:28, g wrote:

greetings.

with yumex not in sl6.3, is there another gui available to look for a
package content, other than yum provides?

my fingers get tired with a lot of typing, which i am not very good at. :-)

tia.



yumex is available from EPEL.  smart-gui, at ATrpms, gives similar 
information and I've used it a lot, recently in the 1.4.1 version which 
I had to build myself.  I'm now running 6.4 with kde-unstable and 
haven't yet managed to rebuild smart-gui for that.


John P

Re: yumex

[John Pilkington]

On 18/04/13 11:49, g wrote:

On 04/18/2013 03:31 AM, John Pilkington wrote:



yumex is available from EPEL.  smart-gui, at ATrpms, gives similar
information and I've used it a lot, recently in the 1.4.1 version which
I had to build myself.  I'm now running 6.4 with kde-unstable and
haven't yet managed to rebuild smart-gui for that.


that drove the nail in real good. i installed this system from a live
cd and failed to set up the rest of the repos. i knew things where a
little on the thin side, but i had not realize why.

thank you very much.

Coming new(ish) to yumex after smart, I find its control of 
repo-selection unreliable; but smart can get bogged down in dependency 
resolution with eg the Fedora repos and prefers to sort out a few 
packages at a time.  Otherwise kill -9 :-(

Re: yumex

[g]

On 04/18/2013 06:10 AM, John Pilkington wrote:



Coming new(ish) to yumex after smart, I find its control of
repo-selection unreliable; but smart can get bogged down in dependency
resolution with eg the Fedora repos and prefers to sort out a few
packages at a time.  Otherwise kill -9 :-(


interesting. i have not had problems. at least not that i am aware of.

i am not familiar with 'smart' so i can not comment about it.

i am currently using a friends system, setting it up for him.

i erred in installing from a 6.3 live cd that i made for another purpose,
as i did not give thought to how lacking it would be for a working
system.

seems like nothing is every easy when i try a quick way. :-)

sure as God made little green apples, i found out just how lacking
it is when i started setting up for new repos.

i am pulling in the 6.4 boot iso now. after, i will put it on a 256m0
memory stick that has been collecting dust. then i will wipe this
installation, reformat and install a fresh system.

currently, i have 6.3 on a memory stick that i have show some folks
how easy it is to use linux. 2 want it as a second boot, 4 want it
to replace oos.

i do believe the 2 dual booter's will end up moving on into linux
once i set them up and show them how easy it can be to play their
games under vm.

i noticed that download is finished, so i am off to the races.

thanks again for waking me up.

later.

--

in a world with out fences, who needs gates.

tc. hago.

g
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