pirut (FC5 additional package installation help)
Lyvim Xaphir
knightmerc at yahoo.com
Sat Apr 15 04:07:02 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 16:06 -0700, Kevin Grover wrote:
> I installed FC5 (at work) from an NFS mount. I picked the 'customize
> later' option on intial install rather than spend the time to select
> individual packages. When I run 'Add/Remove Software' from the Gnome
> (metacity) WM, a GUI pops up, it thinks for a while and gives me an
> error:
>
> 'unable to retrieve software information'
>
> If there's some other program I can use, or if I can get rpm or yum to
> let me select packages. I want to install the KDE stuff, some other
> WMs, and set XDMCP to be launchable from Applications (?? I think
> menu) on the login screen. I know XDMCP is not secure, it does not
> matter: the network this will run on a physically secure.
>
> Everything worked fine (installing new software with pirut) on my home
> machine (which is connected to the Internet).
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> [[FC5 seams to have so much documentation, but never anything I'm
> really lookiing for]]
>
I suggest trying Kyum, which will provide package information for each
rpm that you select. It will also install software groups. Screenshot:
http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=144215
Kyum is on the livna repos.
LX
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