On 4/25/07, William Case billlinux@rogers.com wrote:
Hi Ric;
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 13:16 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 00:50 -0400, William Case wrote:
By the way is yumex ever going to produce a help manual?
Bill, I highly recommend smart. You get a nice gui that shows every rpm out there with a nice search function. If you search for Xine, you'll see what is available and the ones you currently have installed. Really nice. IMHO it's beats the pants off of yumex. Give it a whirl! Ric
Thanks Ric. I had planned to give 'smart' a whirl when I install Fedora 7. Not that the version/core number matters; its just that I have so many small and large learning curves over the next 6 weeks that I have given myself to climb. A new install of fedora seemed like a good benchmark to add new applications to try out.
By the way, does 'smart' have a good manual. 'man' yum and yumex --no-help, are pretty rudimentary if you want to go deeper than just trial and error.
Unfortunately, the documentation is a work in progress. Home/development page is http://labix.org/smart . Most recent release is at version 0.5. To get started install the following packages:
smart smart-gui smart-update ksmarttray (if you use KDE) fedora-package-config-smart
You will end up with smart configured for Fedora repositories. 3rd party repositories are left up to you.
Regards Bill