[plug] want easy to use RedHat GUI rpm tools

[William Kenworthy]

Yesterday I helped a linux newbie (but experianced windows PC user) to
track down and install some rpm's on a redhat 9 system.  He was going to
build from source rather than install from rpm as he wasnt aware that a
package would exist for what he needed.

Being rusty on RedHat (last version I know well is 7.0) what easy to use
(GUI) package management tools are available?  Something like Mandrakes
urpmi that can be pointed at a central local rpm repository would be
nice.

Without something like this, I can see problems down the track as
tarballs and mods are done without regard to RedHats implementation
philosophy which in my experience will probably manifest itself as
breakage and an OS reinstall down the track ... especially if there are
a largish number of packages being installed/de-installed from foreign
(i.e. tarball, rpmfind) sources.

What do people use where there are a half doz user managed redhat
workstation installs (same OS, but different application fitout) in a
linux newbie environment?

BillK