Kpackage missing from Kdeadmin - Why, and howto rectify

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Emiliano Brunetti wrote:

> 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. 

Have you folks checked Synaptic? It's available from various repositories 
like fedora.us..

	- Panu -