No yum GUI in core?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Apr 16 10:57:50 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 06:25 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 10:05 +0200, dragoran wrote:
> > Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> 
> > > I just loaded that up. It seems to be what it has always has been, a
> > > manager of the software available from the install media, ie. no real
> > > connection to yum. Correct me if I am wrong.
> 
> > you are wrong ...
> > it does not even supports media it uses yum for software installation.
> > you can also install packages that aren't on the install media like the 
> > extras packages or any other repo you set up in yum.
> 
> If he did indeed pull up the add/remove software, then he is correct, in
> that it ONLY gives you info from Fedora Core (which is the media or
> install files), not from any other repo.
> 

It does show Fedora Extras packages along with Fedora Core ones by
default. 


> Then System Tools/Software Updater is pup, which does use all the repos
> (that are enabled) to update your software.  But AFAIK it won't let you
> add or remove software?

Thats what Pirut (Add/Remove software program) is for.

Rahul




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