On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 prata@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 07:43:59AM +0200, Chadley Wilson penned with great insight: > > Good morning fellow users > > > > 2 things > > > > 1st > > isnt there a better frontend for rpms > <snipped you know what you typed> > > 2nd > > Is there a way to make open office 1.1 load faster.it take like 60 sec > > if not more > > For your first question there are several ways to have a nice easy to > use interface. One of them is if you use apt. Synaptic is a nice > frontend. It may however be a little bit overwhelming for a person > because it lists every available and installed package. Unless you do a > search. In which case you get just what you're lookin' for. I'm not much > of a Synaptic user anymore, but I didn't have a problem with it. It's > pretty intuitive, but sometimes long lists of information freak people > out. YMMV Umm.. you can get all sorts of views out of Synaptic, like upgradeable packages, uninstalled / installed only.. and whatnot - look under the View menu (and the show option right above package list) > > Up2date can use yum or apt I believe and it is pretty simplistic. You Slight correction: up2date doesn't *use* yum or apt but it supports both yum and apt repositories natively nowadays. There are some glitches in the apt-repository support currently though. - Panu -
