Yum Extender 0.40 released

[mit]

Yum Extender 0.40 is released.

This release only works in Fedore Core 4.

Yum Extender Homepage

New Features / changes:

* GUI Redesigned.
* Now works with Yum 2.3.x
* Better integration with yum. No more "screen scraping"
* New Progress dialog, insted of redirected yum output.
* Remove Run Yum Command. (Might be back in a later release)

[f0u]

Really nice
Keep up the good work.

[i1n2d3y4]

Installed yumex .40 for FC4 from the rpm, but unable to run.

seems to be some python errors in the application

error output:
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "yumex.py", line 23, in ?
File "yumWrapper.py", line 26, in ?
File "/usr/src/build/535819-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 37, in ?
RuntimeError: could not open display

[mit]

Originally Posted by i1n2d3y4

Installed yumex .40 for FC4 from the rpm, but unable to run.

seems to be some python errors in the application

error output:
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "yumex.py", line 23, in ?
File "yumWrapper.py", line 26, in ?
File "/usr/src/build/535819-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 37, in ?
RuntimeError: could not open display

Some users had this kind errors in the past, It some kind of problem with Python / PyGtk loading from the wrong path.
Normally pyGtk is located in /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/, i dont known why it loading from the /usr/src/build/535819-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/.

Have you installed a fresh installation of FC4 ??
Are you using gnome ??
Have you deselected some packages at installation ???

[i1n2d3y4]

Originally Posted by mit

Some users had this kind errors in the past, It some kind of problem with Python / PyGtk loading from the wrong path.
Normally pyGtk is located in /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/, i dont known why it loading from the /usr/src/build/535819-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/.

Have you installed a fresh installation of FC4 ??
Are you using gnome ??
Have you deselected some packages at installation ???

Did a new install of FC4 from dvd and selected all packages for install. The only thing I can think of is I installed python-crypto separately as it was required by revelation password manager.

[mit]

Originally Posted by i1n2d3y4

Did a new install of FC4 from dvd and selected all packages for install. The only thing I can think of is I installed python-crypto separately as it was required by revelation password manager.

Very weird.

does the system-config-* application works ???
are you working locally on the machine ???
what kind of hardware are you using ???

try running 'xhost +' before starting yumex.

Edit1:
Have you tried a reboot, i did some searching an found a reboot sometimes solves this error.

[i1n2d3y4]

Originally Posted by mit

Very weird.

does the system-config-* application works ???
are you working locally on the machine ???
what kind of hardware are you using ???

try running 'xhost +' before starting yumex.

Edit1:
Have you tried a reboot, i did some searching an found a reboot sometimes solves this error.

Reboot does not solve the problem with the "xlib: conection ":0.0" refused by server"

but running xhost + before starting yumex did fix the problem. Another thing I noticed that causes yumex to crash is I created a new repo file in yu.repos.d and by mistake forgot to put in a header in the file [fedora-project-extras], as soon as I fixed this yumex gui came up.

I like the gui much than the last one. Keep up the good work.

[nandowong]

Originally Posted by mit

Very weird.

does the system-config-* application works ???
are you working locally on the machine ???
what kind of hardware are you using ???

try running 'xhost +' before starting yumex.

Edit1:
Have you tried a reboot, i did some searching an found a reboot sometimes solves this error.

the xhost + worked. thanks


what does xhost + do?

[nuopus]

xhost is set to not allow connections from any host by default. When you use the su command, you are executing another session. The X program has to have access to the display in order to draw the screen.

Try this ... at the console BEFORE you type su, type xhost +
then do su
now go ahead and execute yumex ... it should work now. You can also do xhost +localhost to only allow connections from localhost. You must execute xhost as the owner of the session ... this means the normal user that initially logged in.

Originally Posted by i1n2d3y4

Installed yumex .40 for FC4 from the rpm, but unable to run.

seems to be some python errors in the application

error output:
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "yumex.py", line 23, in ?
File "yumWrapper.py", line 26, in ?
File "/usr/src/build/535819-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 37, in ?
RuntimeError: could not open display

[komi]

yes, i also like this tool very much!
would be nice, if we would see it in fedora extras in the future!

regards komi

[mit]

Originally Posted by komi

yes, i also like this tool very much!
would be nice, if we would see it in fedora extras in the future!

regards komi

I plan to apply for Yum Extender to get included in Fedora Extra, in the future.

[exe]

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

Start yumex from menu, it will ask about root pw, and no problem.
ps. I assume you login as user, and su later, before starting yumex

[i1n2d3y4]

Originally Posted by exe

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

Start yumex from menu, it will ask about root pw, and no problem.
ps. I assume you login as user, and su later, before starting yumex

when running from the menu, nothing happens, I guess it crahes during start up. thats why started a terminal, did a su and then started yumex from the command line. still get the error.

[dnar]

Very nice, good work.

[ilja]

please see this thread : http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...766#post281766