Kpackage missing from Kdeadmin - Why, and howto rectify

Emiliano Brunetti emiliano_brunetti at idg.it
Tue Jan 20 08:29:59 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 00:29, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
> Michael Kearey wrote:
> 
> > I do have to ask why such a need for kpackage? It is quite nice to look 
> > at, but it doesn't appear to do anything more than a small number of 
> > commandline + options could acheive.
> > 
> > ie 'yum list' 'yum list available' 'yum info <somepackage>' 'yum update' 
> > 'yum install <somepackage'>
> 
> WARNING: I have never used kpackage.
> It's my understanding from the long ago OP, however, that the visual 
> display of kpackage made it easier to not only view the set of installed 
> packages, but to more easily pick out packages and groups of packages 
> that could be removed from the system without disrupting the rest of 
> your dependencies.

This is exactly what i need kpackage for. Yet it doesn't work on my
system. 

E.





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