Re: RH8 - where is the package management?

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 15:23, mike808@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> I'm running RH8 and was wondering where's the menu selection for
> a GUI RPM manager more flexible than the "RPMs for Dummies" package manager that
> only has a couple of broad catagories, no ability to specify where your RPMs
> came from, and complained when I checked off some more boxes that I didn't have
> pre-requisite libraries for openssl or krb5-libs (without telling me which
> packages required them) of a specific version that had since been updated by 
> the up2date tool.
> 
> I shouldn't have to hunt down kpackage and install it. Is there some
> 'expert' option or am I just missing something obvious? Is it because I
> installed the download version?

Mike,

Not sure I can help you much, but it sounds like you may be looking for
"rpmfind".  If so, it's been replaced by the "redhat-config-packages"
script in /usr/sbin. The new utility doesn't appear to allow custom
configuration like the old one did. I'm not sure, but I *think* the
package groups info you see there come from the comps and comps-extra
RPMs at install-time.

Steve's apt-get may have the capabilities you're looking for.

--Doc


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