On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 12:04, kwhiskers wrote: > One SUPREME drawback I have found to all of the package managers like > yum, synaptic and up2date is that they only update the programs you > have on your system. If you use the update function... If you read 'man yum' you'll see that there are other operations. > What if I want to get some new programs that I don't yet have? yum install packagename > There are 1000s of programs on the official fedora discs and on > extras, but there is no way for me to know what they are, so how could > I know whether I want to install them, or even know that they exist, > unless I scan the list? yum list yum search yum info These each have options. > I have spent hours scanning the directories, manually typing rpm -qip > package.rpm for HUNDREDS of files, just to find out more and get a > COUPLE of nice gems. At least KPackage lets you have some information > about a program, but still, you need to look at each and every one. Try giving 'yum search' a keyword that might be found in the description as a starting point. The output may not be pretty but you can capture it in the usual ways 'yum search video >somefile' or pipe to less where you can page forwards/backwards or search for additional strings. Approaches like these can find something in minutes that can take days of browsing through even the best-laid-out visuals. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
