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kpackage 4 FC2

mborn's picture

Peace, I would like to know if a package like KAPCKAGE exits for FedoraCore2. I have tried www.rpmfind.net, but the one I installed (kapckage-3.x.x.rpm) was installed correctly yet did not work. I typed kapackage and said it is not found! So, if there is any package manager for FedoraCore2 that would be great, the one that comes with it is awful!

Max

PS. I love redhat

Kpackage seems to be a front

Kpackage seems to be a front end for several packaging systems but don't know if it'll work for apt-rpm, it certainly doesn't support yum. So I think you better drop the whole kpackage idea.

What u need is to decide what package handler you wanna use, for FC its either apt-rpm or yum, then choose a frontend for it.

Apt-rpm has synaptic and kynaptic as frontends, one gtk2 and the other qt. Yum has one frontend named YUMGUI

By the way, there's a nice article somewhere here about yum, check it.

mborn's picture

I did not find yumgui in rpmf

I did not find yumgui in rpmfind.net! Where can I get it from?

Max

mborn's picture

with google I could find it.

with google I could find it. but after installation and passing the root password I had this error,

Could not setup settings tab. Config.py needs mods. Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)

Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base

retrygrab() failed for:

Executing failover method

failover: out of servers to try

it seems it wants a connection to the internet, which is not available to me on linux and also, I only want to remove packages.

Max

YUMGUI

this application rocks...!!! thanks for the tip... I have been searching for a loooooooooong time for something like this...

YoussefAssad's picture

You're in luck :)

Thanks cvirus and mildewy, great efforts.

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mborn's picture

I have contacted yumcui guys

I have contacted yumgui guys and said that it should be connected to the net, is that true? I shall read the article....thanks

Max

PS. All I ask for is a package manager that will help me remove and add packages to my system. These package I have downloaded from the net myself. I use win for the net and I want to have something to manage my packages manually and graphically, that's it. I will wilcome yum (or yumi) if they can help me.

mborn's picture

Doea this mean I have no hope

Doea this mean I have no hope in removing the packages I want? I said before, I have installed many packages (mostly for other languages support) which I dont need, I would like to know them and remove them. Of course I can know them if I see their names, something like kde-i18-fr, say, or aspell-af. So I want to know how may I find them?

Max

Hey max. yay go fedora go!

Hey max.

yay go fedora go!!!!!

kpackage is part of kdeadmin, I don't know about redcrap support, but the cvs version supports portage.

(Redcrap is a trademark of redcrap corprations (TM) :P)

peace

mborn's picture

OoO, should I open a console

OoO, should I open a console and write $yay go fedora go!!!!!

or what? Excuse me I could not find command yay on my system!!!:)

If you can help, then do it man, I have over two GB of garbage here mostly languages I dont even know about.

Max

???? I did :-p it's part o

???? I did :-p

it's part of kdeadmin in kde-3.3/cvs....

peace


CVirus's picture

YUM GUI

Alaa's picture

one needs UIs

as much as I love the command line, browsing stuff needs an interactive UI.

one needs to browse the database of available packages and the database of installed packages, perform various queries and searches etc.

only a UI can do this in an effective manner, command line query schemes assume the user knows what she is looking for which isn't always the case.

cheers,

Alaa


"u know i once dream that the office of mobinil is from el 7`os :S and the one that answer u and tell u rasidak a girl called ghada"

CVirus's picture

try this also rpm -qa|sort|mo

try this also rpm -qa|sort|more

Alaa's picture

LAME LAME LAME

this is the lamest advice I've ever heard, rpm -qa tells you nothing, it does not categorise the package list, it does not provide any sort of information.

in order for one to actualy browse the package selection one has to use comp-licated scripts to proved a category tree, and each traversal of the tree requires a seperate command.

in order to show vluable info one has to craft different RPM commands, and eventualy you'll want to specify custom query format which is way too complicated a process for the benefit one gets.

and finaly it does not allow you to actualy query the packages not installed on the system.

cheers,

Alaa


"u know i once dream that the office of mobinil is from el 7`os :S and the one that answer u and tell u rasidak a girl called ghada"

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