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 ________________________________________________________________________ Database Server: Fedora Core 3
