On Thursday 19 Jan 2006 17:45, Claude Jones wrote: > On Thursday 19 January 2006 10:44 am, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > > 1. Try installing the latest yumex devel from fedora-Extras. > > (You will need to install yum 2.5.x from development) > > > > 2. Disable 'Filelist & Changelog' from preferences > > > > 3. Enable 'Best' Mirror detection in preferences. > > > > 4. Enable 'Debug Mode' in Preferences to get more output. > > > > Tim > > Tim: > > Allow me to jump back in: I tried your suggestions, and they have > made a big difference. In fact, on several tests just now, Yumex was > much faster than KYum. > I haven't tried KYum, but I found that just disabling the Filelist & Changelog has made a tremendous difference. It took less than 3 minutes to get to the stage that I had achieved in 18 minutes before! > A feature request: I know this is not the necessarily right place, > but maybe others will have a comment. The thing I really liked about > Synaptic's interface was that you could list all in one window - > packages that were available, installed, and upgradeable, could all > be seen in the one window. That makes all kinds of things easier > and/or possible. > > Far as I know, there is no "Remove" function in Yumex - correct me if > I'm wrong... > It's there in the sidebar on mine. It's definitely usable now. I'm happy with yum for updates and when I want to install a single known package, but if I'm browsing to solve a problem I want to be able to look at options and read descriptions. I experimented with filtering to find a group of options, and it seemed to work fine. For this need yumex will be very useful, thanks. Anne
