Smart vs Yum (was: A Fedora Core 3 manual?)

[Giulio Sorrentino]

Johnathan Bailes wrote:

>On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:48:18 +0100, Giulio Sorrentino
><numerone.fedora at wooow.it> wrote:
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>>Rajev Mhasawade wrote:
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>>>I am one of those who dont know what is CUPS.In fact basic things like
>>>what to do if i want to download only the critical updates thru yum?My
>>>yum tends to download everything what it gets on net thru my dial-up.
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>>>I guess Fedora-Red hat bible might help for those 1600 package info.
>>>Rajev
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>>Cups is the print manager: is the server that make you print files.
>>The simplest way to upgrade only some packages with yum is set only the
>>packages you want upgrade.
>>For doing this I suggest you a GUI for yum, such as yumex
>>(http://linux.rasmil.dk/mambo).
>>I belive you have FC3.
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>Everyone kept saying how good this application was so finally I tried
>this thing and it is really better than gyum or yum extender or
>anything else I have ever used for Fedora/RH.
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>SMART.
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>http://www.smartpm.org
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>Dag has rpms for them here:
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>http://dag.wieers.com/packages/smart/
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>Grab the smart, smart-gui and smart-update packages.
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>Launch choose all the repos for rpm packages you want and click the
>green arrows to update the list of packages.
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>Oh it is sweet and fast and makes my linux-loving gnome desktop
>hugging heart glad.
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>The gui could use a tad bit of love imho for the noobs in use all but
>otherwise it is great!!
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 From test i've done smart cannot connects to yum servers.
This is not good because fedora's install manager is yum (i apologize to 
purists for this sentence).
So I suggest yum's guis...

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numerone