I am new to the Fedora 9 distro so am struggling with first time differences from the Debain style Os's.

Can I possibly get Update Manager (name?) to show all the software in 'Alphabetic' order?

Can I also get the Update Manager to show some info about the download process such as number of megabytes to be downloaded and the speed of the down load. As my Fedora 9 was installed I don't get this important information. Any help would be appreciated.

Try this thread:


http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...or-yum-655074/



Chris

Thanks for the reference Chris, I have the default installation >>Fedora 9 has PackageKit installed by default<< and have no problem finding the GUI as above. Are you suggesting if I >>yum install yumex<< that I will get the other essential information and an improved GUI?.

Yumex give a more detailed information about what it is updating , updating time and process
And if you run from the command line it also give in formation in the terminal

Ok, thanyou, now I have 'yumex extender' installed and even got an icon on 'Applications/System tools, sadly I get no response from it. Tried 'yumex' from the terminal and got the following:-

[root@localhost username]# yumex
No protocol specified
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/yumex/yumex.py", line 29, in <module>
import gtk,gobject
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 79, in <module>
_init()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 67, in _init
_gtk.init_check()
RuntimeError: could not open display

Any suggestions to get this running? When I try this from Alt/f2 launcher it asks for root password and then disappears?
How do I run 'root' or 'su' from Alt/F2 launcher which also has the same icon. (man yumex gave no entry, yumex --help repeated the above errors. (I have not rebooted the system yet)
If you could point me to the next step it would be most appreciated.

I presume you run the install command as su
If you give the command whereis yumex the answer should be :
/usr/bin/yumex/etc/yumex.conf/usr/share/yumex.

Yes I do get the location of yumex and when I try to run /usr/bin/yumex
I get the same errors as posted above and separately System tools/Yum Extender asks for password but does not run.

Is there a problem with root password or permissions as I cannot get su gedit filename to run either. 'su: user gedit does not exist'
If I try Admin/Users & Groups I get no response?

I am not getting into this very well, maybe a reinstall would help if I which options were required (with respect to root)

You need to understand the difference between su and su - (su space dash). The space dash gives you not only the root permission but root's path, without it you are just using the user's path.

How did you install yumex?

Its also simpler if you don't try to do it all on one line. su is not the same as sudo. Try this

su -

(should prompt for root passwd and gives you roots env).
Now you're in as root, do whatever eg

gedit somefile