Hi guys,

I was wondering is there anything like YaST from SuSE in FC5? You know a centralised control center kinda thing. There is one but its more of a KDE control center. Maybe something like the control center of Mandrake or SuSE would be nice.

Anyboy know any packages for this??

Thanks

For installing packages, there is a graphical package manager - it called Pirut, but I think it is in the menu as "Add/Remove Software".

As for a control centre, no. There are plenty of GUI config applications in the various menus, but nothing like Yast.

I hope this helps
--Ian

Thanks for the response but im still not convinced. There has to be a control center albeit from a third party coz i had one installed a month ago but don't remember it . It had a GUI and all your system-config-xxxx(no thanks Red-Hat) were neatly controlled by button describing them.

I am hoping somebody will surely know about something.

As for 'Pirut' its blows monkey balls (sorry for the words).

Cheers

PS : Have you noticed we both almost use the same distros??

I agree, it certainly would be useful to have a control centre like you are talkling about, but AFAIK there isn't one. If anyone knows of one, I certainly would be interested to know about it.

With Pirut, is it me, or does it run rather slowly? I have a reasonably fast machine, and it takes about 2-3 minutes just to start. I think it shows potential, but I like plain old apt-get on Debian

Interesting that we use pretty much the same distros. What is Ubuntu Dapper like? I have been thinking of upgrading, but since I use Breezy for most of my day to day work I have been reluctant to try it out.

--Ian

yum install system-config-control in the extras repository

and while you're at it grab yumex (yum extender) for your GUI package manager

Aha!! Thanks Crito i remember now. Yes i got YUMEX and KYum installed.

I suggest you stick with Breezy until June when Dapper final will be released. Beta2 has a lot of improvements since beta1 but still not there, but surely getting there.