On 4/25/07, William Case <billlinux(a)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