[plug] Red Hat package management

[Derek Fountain]

Any RHL9 users on the list? I've just installed a copy and am having trouble 
understanding the package management system, or lack of one. The supplied 
redhat-config-packages isn't fine grained and doesn't have the ability to 
search, or tell me what's installed such that I can remove stuff easily.

I want to install the tcl/tk packages, plus incr tcl. There doesn't seem to be 
a tool which allows me to point and click on those and install them for me. 
Even trying to get xchat installed with a CLI rpm command presented a list of 
dependencies, and short of sifting through the CDs trying to find the 
packages required (and all their dependencies) I can't see a way of getting 
the tools I need installed.

I get the impression I'm missing something. I asked on the surprisingly 
unhelpful #RedHat channel on freenode and was basically told that people 
install apt-get for rpm. Is that really the only solution? What do RHL users 
on this list do to get packages quickly and easily installed?

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