Fedora 11: What do we expect?

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Mon Feb 2 19:21:08 UTC 2009


On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Ian Burrell <ianburrell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/2/1 Ashiqur Rahman Angel <angel at linux.org.bd>:
>>
>> 5. There has a very easy way to install a rpm package from CLI (one single
>> package, that has not any dependency issue or if it has, it´s possible to
>> install the package by ignoring it). But from Fedora 9, GUI double click rpm
>> install doesnt work at all. So, we need a GUI solution of it.
>>
>
> How much easier than "yum localinstall package.rpm" do you want?  That
> will install the package and any dependencies.
>
> In Fedora 10, double-clicking on .rpm file launches gnome-packagekit
> to install the package (and any dependencies).  You can even launch
> the GUI from the command-line with gnome-open.
>
>  - Ian


Double-clicking on RPMs have worked (to some degree) for several
versions now. Just wanted to make that clear for those not aware.


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