Fedora Core 3 Two questions

Toralf Lund toralf at procaptura.com
Fri May 6 15:07:29 UTC 2005


Lee M Ward wrote:

>What's up? I just downloaded and installed FC3 and I'm loving it so far.
>Only two things I'm trying to figure out. First: Is there a any programs
>on here like GnoRPM so I can manage my installed programs a little
>better.
>
Like someone else mentioned briefly, GnoRPM was replaced by a tool 
called "redhat-config-packages", which was later renamed 
"system-config-packages."

I used to think that this was a rather nice GUI, but apparently, the 
current version has some nasty bugs ;-( It may work all right for you, 
though, as most of the problems only surface after certain packages have 
been upgraded.

>Second: Why won't it let me install source RPMs? I tried a
>couple and it keeps telling me I can't because of "system-config-
>packages." Is there any way around this? Thank you for your help. Peace.
>
>Lee Ward
>
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