[plug] want easy to use RedHat GUI rpm tools

[Lawrie Abbott]

William Kenworthy wrote:

>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
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Bill, I can relate to that user :). I've found synaptic ( GUI front end 
for APT) on Redhat and Fedora OK.  My list of apt repositories on this 
machine
[lawrie at T1000 sources.list.d]$ ls -1
at.list
ccrma.list
dag.list
fedora.list
freshrpms.list
jpackage.list
kde-redhat.list
newrpms.list

Gives a range of choices of packages...

Cheers,
Lawrie