Archieve Manager, Installing RPM's

mickeyboa · 10-19-2006, 02:01 PM

FC5, What Package? is the Archive Manager for Installing RPM's encluded in, in Fedora5

Jim

reddazz · 10-20-2006, 10:37 AM

Your question is a bit confusing. Are you asking which package is used to install software on Fedora Core 5? If so its called system-config-packages. There is another package called Pirut which is used to update the system. YUMEX is a good frontend to YUM and you can use it to install, remove and upgrade packages.

mickeyboa · 10-20-2006, 02:41 PM

Goto your FC5 home file manager click on a RPM Icon to install app,
It comes back and says "Archive Manager" and ask for SU password
to install RPM.
I know all about the other ways to install/update rpm's.
system-config-packages is not part of Fedora 5, but it was in Fedora 4.
There is another app that installs RPM's from GUI , clicking on
Icon for the RPM package you want to install. I don't know what they change from FC4 to FC5.
If your using FC5, at command line type in rpm -qa | grep system-config-packages and see what you get.

Jim

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reddazz · 10-20-2006, 03:45 PM

The package manager you are looking for, is probably Pirut.

mickeyboa · 10-20-2006, 06:01 PM

Close, but if I pull a Rpm down off the Internet and I put it in my
home directory, Then I want to install it, pirut, doesn't seem to be much help in the gui, i don't want to have to use command rpm -ivh rpm to install.
pirut seem to work only if you have a repository or cd set of FC, set up for it to select from.
I'am teaching newbie's how to install a individual Rpm from a gui.
and not using the command line. This is where system-config-packages
came in handy.
Surly there is a way to do the same in a FC5 gui, but I have not found it.

Jim