I don't think this is as nice as synaptic, but you might want to look at yumex (YUM Extender). It's pretty good. I don't think it has a category view which I liked in synaptic.
You should be able to 'yum install yumex' I think. Greg On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 12:40 -0600, Bryan Sant wrote: > On 7/21/05, Gabriel Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 10:29 -0600, Doran Barton wrote: > > I still think it has a long way to go. It is *getting* there but > > apt-get still takes it. > > Agreed. I use Yum because it is there by default and does the job, > but it's still not as nice as apt4rpm. I think the output format of > apt is better and I'm not aware of a Yum front-end that is as nice as > Synaptic. Further, Yum forces you to freshen the list of packages on > repositories before you can do anything. Apt doesn't force you to > update unless you want to -- it will use a local snapshot of the > packages previously downloaded from the repositories. This is nice > for searching for a package, etc. > > Yum on the other hand: > > # yum search cups > > Yea! I get to wait 500 years for yum to download the remote packge > list before it peforms my stupid search. > > Yum isn't yummy yet. > > -Bryan > .===================================. > | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | > | Don't Fear the Penguin. | > | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | > `===================================' .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
