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pitonyak
30th April 2008, 01:42 PM
I am writing an article regarding the new Live Persistence capability. I am impressed that I can now create a Live USB key and it will persist my changes.

I used System > Administration > Add/Remove Software to add new software. Categories are shown on the left. I clicked on categories (Admin Tools, Office, and Games) and no software is shown. Using YUM, I am able to find and install software. I applied a filter for openoffice, and software is shown as available for install.

Is anyone able to verify this problem, especially with a copy installed on a hard drive?

Should I report this as a bug?
ShivaS
30th April 2008, 03:17 PM
I noticed odd behaviour in Add/Remove Software app., as well. In my case, the install button does nothing (or nothing visible).
pitonyak
30th April 2008, 09:58 PM

I will report this as a bug. I did not try to install anything from here, I did, however, install items using YUM with no problems.
Bacchante
1st May 2008, 06:48 PM
You can solve this by:

;; "Adding the livna repository"
rpm -hiv http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm

;; "Disable the standard repo by setting enabled=0"
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/livna.repo

;; "Enable the development repo by settinge enabled=1"
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/livna-devel.repo


You can also use gedit instead of vi. More information is in the thread:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=187319
barf
10th May 2008, 02:21 AM
Yep had the same problem. If you (in the app) click on System and then Refresh appllication lists you'll find the packages appear. It has some nice features but is not able to (at least I've not been able to) make multiple add or remove choices so the first thing to use it for is to install yumex. :)
barf
10th May 2008, 02:33 AM
Yep had the same problem. If you (in the app) click on System and then Refresh appllication lists you'll find the packages appear. It has some nice features but is not able to (at least I've not been able to) make multiple add or remove choices so the first thing to use it for is to install yumex. :)

Ahh Haa ha ha. Just tried my own advice (install yumex) click on the install button, NOTHING, so yum install yumex is the way to go (and it works).