John Krische wrote: [...]
I've long been a fan of Debian's APT system updating tool, and it's got a pretty good GUI called Synaptic. When I discovered that FC2 included YUM, I immediately started looking for a GUI for it, since Yum and Apt operate on extremely similar models and thus Yum should in theory be just as good a thing to have a GUI for as Apt.
So, new users and/or those interested in a Yum GUI, there is a pretty good one available called "yumi", available from Cobind. They are busy making a custom desktop enviroment package, kind of like Ximian, sort of, part of which is a Yum GUI that you can download independently. Just search Google for "cobind yum gui" and you'll find it right away. It's a VERY small download, like only 50K or so. I think you will like it. Versions are available for all RH/FC releases since RH9.
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Don't forget that Thomas Chung has two especially nice mods of yumi!
Here are the urls:
http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/gyum/
and the corresponding applet (i.e. "blue check mark thingy") can be found here:
http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-applet/
Look carefully at the top of each of those pages for the FC2 binaries!
If a user doesn't like the yum-applet, or simply wants the rhn-applet back in place, here's how to get things back like they were originally:
# yum install rhn-applet
Hope this helps, and "thanks" to Thomas for his work and articles at FedoraNews.org!
Clint
