At 10:20 AM 12/28/2005, Johnny Hughes wrote:
BTW, I know not having a GUI installer is a PITA ...
This is NOT 1984 anymore. :-D We are SPOILED. (of course I still run NET USE and XCOPY from a command window.)
We are looking at some yum GUI front ends like yumex (which seems to be the best we have checked so far). The only problem I have with yumex so far is that it doesn't work with the yum plugins (at least it did not work with protectbase).
The above linked guide will get you using "yum provides", "yum info xxxxx", "yum search xxxxx" and "yum list xxxxx" so that not having a GUI is at least bearable.
Knowledge is a dangerous thing....
Given all that yum claims why is RPM still used so much?
From what I read here, if there is a package I want that is not in a yum repository like Scalix CE, I would download the rpm, then use yum with that rpm file. That way I would take care of any dependencies needed by Scalix.
If there was an update to a package not in the yum repository, I would download said package and again use you.