Yum, recover, frontend, help........ 12

[del_diablo]

So on my perilous journey for the superior OS i installed fedora 12 KDE. The frontend(to yum) is default more than bugged, there is lots of underlying bugs, and I managed to recover from my first screw up on the dependency hell(something decided to remove xorg+kde, along with my apps).
The real problem is at hand:
*Yum is useless for searching up something
*Yum refuses to install unsigned packages(what is the non-existing force parameter?)
*Yum lacks a good qt fronted, well to be found in the repos at the least(fusion-rpm enabled)
*Did I mention that most of the stuff on the system got obscure gtk and cairo dependencies(ex: kpackagekit)

So without a working frontend, how do I clean up this mess? I am even having trouble to locate the "ignore deps" flag....................

[Firewing1]

Originally Posted by del_diablo

*Yum is useless for searching up something

# Displays information about a package
yum info packagename
# Searches packages summaries
yum search string
# Lists packages with "string" somewhere in the name
yum list \*string\*
# Installs package owning filename
yum install */filename

Originally Posted by del_diablo

*Yum refuses to install unsigned packages(what is the non-existing force parameter?)

yum --nogpgcheck install packagename

Use "localinstall" to install a downloaded/local .rpm file.

Originally Posted by del_diablo

*Yum lacks a good qt fronted, well to be found in the repos at the least(fusion-rpm enabled)

You haven't given much info about how or why kpackagekit isn't working, but it is probably your best Qt-based frontend. Otherwise, check out kyum.

Originally Posted by del_diablo

*Did I mention that most of the stuff on the system got obscure gtk and cairo dependencies(ex: kpackagekit)

Obscure? Although Fedora has a great KDE community, it is by design a Gnome-based distribution. I'm assuming when you say "most stuff" you mean many of the system tools and those are programmed using Gtk (which requires cairo).

Originally Posted by del_diablo

So without a working frontend, how do I clean up this mess? I am even having trouble to locate the "ignore deps" flag....................

See "rpm --help", you're looking for --nodeps.

[del_diablo]

What I mean by yum is not good for searching is that a GUI works better for searching for packages.
Thanks for the flags, and for help. It solved some problems. Out of curiosity: Why is those commands not included in the manual? The manual is for those little things............

Now, I ran into another problem:
Knetworkmanager shows of "Network Manager Disabled", and I can't seem to find a way to fix it The next problem is that the people with similar problems seem to solve it trough adding and removing gnomes network manager, which is troublesome to find in yum.............
Some details I have now gotten when attemting to start nm-applet

** (nm-applet:3242): WARNING **: get_all_cb: couldn't retrieve system settings properties: (2) The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings was not provided by any .service files.

** (nm-applet:3242): WARNING **: fetch_connections_done: error fetching system connections: (2) The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings was not provided by any .service files.

---------- Post added at 08:23 PM CST ---------- Previous post was at 06:07 PM CST ----------

Time to report to the bugtracker for KDE, the problem about the network manager was related to that it may not enable networking by itself.