[plug] want easy to use RedHat GUI rpm tools

[Derek Fountain]

> 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.

I looked into this about 3 weeks ago. The answer appears to be YUM:

 http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/

It was simple to get going and works perfectly. There's a RHL9 version for 
download which worked out of the box for me. In all it took me about 3 hours 
to get to grips with, from my first google to concluding my home RPM 
repository was working correctly.

Contrast to APT4RPM which I setup on a SUSE box. Three friggin' days of 
messing about trying to force certain packages to stay downgraded because 
newer versions clashed with packages from different repositories, etc. A 
nightmare, and I didn't even get around to setting up a home repository.

I can see why YUM has been made the standard tool for Fedora. The only bit I'm 
not sure about is your requirement for a GUI tool. I used YUM with the 
command line only, so you might want to check the availability of a GUI 
before you commit to it.

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