Fedora Core 3 Two questions

[Billy Tallis]

On 5/6/05, Toralf Lund <toralf at procaptura.com> wrote:
> Lee M Ward wrote:
> 
> >What's up? I just downloaded and installed FC3 and I'm loving it so far.
> >Only two things I'm trying to figure out. First: Is there a any programs
> >on here like GnoRPM so I can manage my installed programs a little
> >better.
> >
> Like someone else mentioned briefly, GnoRPM was replaced by a tool
> called "redhat-config-packages", which was later renamed
> "system-config-packages."
> 
> I used to think that this was a rather nice GUI, but apparently, the
> current version has some nasty bugs ;-( It may work all right for you,
> though, as most of the problems only surface after certain packages have
> been upgraded.
> 

SmartPM has a gui, in addition to the fact that it is one of the
better programs at resolving dependencies. Yum also has the
groupinstall feature that might help.

> >Second: Why won't it let me install source RPMs? I tried a
> >couple and it keeps telling me I can't because of "system-config-
> >packages." Is there any way around this? Thank you for your help. Peace.
> >

Pretty much the only way to install SRPMS is through the rpmbuild command.