To help all who are installing and upgrading - Use Yumex

[LouArnold]

I have discovered Yumex - a GUI tool for Yum. Yum is an application that helps administrators install and upgrade software on Linux. I am using it on FC4. Others can add comments about their success on other Linux flavours.

What Yumex does that my little leftsided brain couldn't do was handle multiple dependencies - the kind that you get when you don't list all the RPMs that need listing on the yum command line so that you don't get a list of messages about dependencies and conflicts. I'm sure someone else can explain it better, so please add follow-on comments.

So I'll pass on some URLs that should help you begin to learn about RPM, Yum and Yumex and where and how to find RPMs, repositories and keys:
First to install Yumex: shell> yum install yumex

Managing Software with yum: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/en/
Yum Extender User Guide: http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/yumex/
Les RPM de Remi (In French; I can read it, but its rather obvious) Remi creates RPMs for Fedora Core versions:http://remi.collet.free.fr/index.php
RPM Pbone, a list of RPMs. I'm not sure if one needs to buy the service as yet: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/19
And of course RPMFind.net: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/

And if everyone knows this already, then forgive me but things are working and I was elated enough to pass on some advice. :rolleyes:

Best wishes,
Lou.

[Melio]

Yumex is a neat too - but if your looking for speed, go to a terminal and yum

[bob]

Lou, thanks for the tip. Yumex has been an excellent tool and is maintained by one of our members, Mit. Actaully, while Melio's comment was true awhile back, I've noticed that the latest versions of Yumex are very close in speed to Yum and I tend to use both interchangeably. It's also a wonderful resource when you're just poking around looking for available software - with yumex it's all laid out before you.

[Melio]

I"m gonna have to try yumex again - I just became used to yum .. because of speed.

[Melio]

installed yumex - wow it is faster. thanks bob :)

[Wayne]

installed yumex - wow it is faster. thanks bob :)

I like Yumex in general but there is one thing that bugs me! OK, when it starts it checks the repositories, that's understandable otherwise it won't know what's changed, just as Yum does. The thing that bothers me is that after you've added items to the queue and it's been processed it checks the repos again! Is that really necessary? When I've done adding/removing/updating stuff I don't want to have to wait before I close the program. I don't think much, if anything, is going to change in the time you add things to the queue and when it's done! At least an option not to recheck the repos would be useful.

Wayne