[SOLVED] where do i find a list of rpm and yum apps?
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Will yum and rpm ARE the apps. If you are using yum, them you don't go downloading anything yourself, you just run ' yum install package_name_here' and yum does the rest.
Not sure what you're looking for, but if its a list of apps you can install, If you're using Fedora (not sure about CentOS or RHEL), I suggest installing yumex
Code:
#yum install yumex
Yumex is a simple graphical interface for yum which will display the various packages available for installation. There's also PackageKit, which, I believe, is installed by default.
I hope not. web interfaces to repos can be very confusing to nebies, and give a very skewed and incorrect way of how software is dealt with by any Linux distro. They're massively useful, but never a first or second resort if you want a simple life.
Very true. But I wouldn't advise installing one of those RPMs unless you know what you're doing. Been there, done that, decided early on that if an attempted installation required packages not in my distro's repositories (either official or unofficial), that I'd forgo the install.
Not sure what you're looking for, but if its a list of apps you can install, If you're using Fedora (not sure about CentOS or RHEL), I suggest installing yumex
Code:
#yum install yumex
Yumex is a simple graphical interface for yum which will display the various packages available for installation. There's also PackageKit, which, I believe, is installed by default.
I tried that code and the terminal said there is no such file or directory. Is there another way to do it? I'm using ubuntu 10.10 if need more info let me know. thank you
I tried that code and the terminal said there is no such file or directory. Is there another way to do it? I'm using ubuntu 10.10 if need more info let me know. thank you
Ummm ... why on earth would you want to use yum/rpm on a debian
based system? You have apt-get, apt-cache, aptitude, synaptic, ...
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