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.