On Tuesday 18 September 2007 10:00:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is anyone aware of a convenient front-end to yum/rpm which provides similar
> interface to Debian's aptitude and can be used on CentOS 5?
>
> (for those who are not familiar - aptitude is an interactive full-screen
> curses-based program which provides a unified interface to manage both
> installed and non-installed but available packages).
>
> So far I could only find "rpm -qa | grep pattern" to list existing packages
> and "yum search" or "yum provides" (and "yum install") to install new ones

When in Rome ...
both redhat-package....
and the Applications -> software management (or some such) do just what you're 
asking for (It's is there, but I've not played with CentOS for a month or 
two, and then only briefly: opinion it's much better than it used to be 
(package management))
James
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