Gideon, I know this is a bit old thread, but I had another idea:
Try using KPackage. It's a very friendly and intuitive GUI / front-end for RPMs. Just type this in a root console: urpmi kpackage Good Luck ! On Sunday 10 October 2004 11:21, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 09 Oct 2004 23:56, g2 wrote: > > Yes, I had set up urmp with some additional sources, I am pretty sure > > including a plf source. However I still found it difficult to browse for > > software. What I found myself wanting, no doubt from my past experiences > > with other OS's, were lists of software by type with easy to understand > > explainations of what they did. I found this quite dificult. > > Do you use the gui for urpmi? One thing I didn't find for quite a long > time was a radio button on the right-hand side for 'maximum information'. > Select 'sorted by group', with that enabled, and you'll get a reasonable > idea of whether a package is likely to fill your need. > > Anne -- :====================================================:. Amichai Rotman The Jerusalem Linux Club - Founder. UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE READ: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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