[ale] Fedora 9

[Scott Castaline]

Geoffrey wrote:
> Scott Castaline wrote:
>> Geoffrey wrote:
>>> Scott Castaline wrote:
>>>> Geoffrey wrote:
>>>>> Scott Castaline wrote:
>>>>>  
>>>>>> Does anyone know the command that starts the package-kit gui in 
>>>>>> Fedora 9? It's the one that corresponds to the menu option 
>>>>>> "Add/Remove Software".
>>>>>>     
>>>>>
>>>>> pirut
>>>>>
>>>>>  
>>>>>> TIA
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>>>>>>     
>>>>> Nope. Command not found. Fedora changed to something else in F9. 
>>>>> F8 and earlier was pirut.
>>>>>   
>>>> Everything I found so far references package-kit, but there ain't 
>>>> no such command. I have also posted on the Fedora Forums, several 
>>>> views no replies, not even any comments from the Fedora people.
>>>
>>> That's weird.  I don't do kde, but in gnome you can drag the menu 
>>> item from the menu to the toolbar.  Once it's there you can right 
>>> click and view the properties.  That will show you what is actually 
>>> being run.
>>>
>>>
>> I too use gnome, but it is no longer on my menu so I can't get that 
>> info. I was trying to resolve an issue with my network, by default 
>> NetworkManager is installed and somehow it was controlling my 
>> interface creating a conflict with the regular network control. This 
>> would cause my system to boot up without my nic turned on. So I 
>> removed NetworkManager, as other people were complaining about the 
>> samething, and I don't have wireless and I don't do DHCP. 
>> Unfortunately I did not read far enough into the thread or the 
>> warnings that came up that other things were being removed to include 
>> the software updater package and the add/remove software utility. The 
>> rest is history and attributable to OlTimerz Disease. Oh the fix I 
>> found was:
>>
>> /sbin/chkconfig NetworkManager off
>> /sbin/chkconfig NetworkManagerDispatcher off
>> /sbin/chkconfig network on
>> /usr/sbin/system-config-network
>>
>>
>>
>> Had I read further down on the thread "*Fedora 9 network settings 
>> wont save" *I wouldn't be in this pickle.*
>> *
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> Is yum installed?
>
> If so, try:
>
> yum install pirut
Okay I guess I was wrong. I thought I had seen something in a thread 
that suggested that pirut had been replaced. I was going to try your 
suggestion earlier but I was working on another suggestion. It installed 
gnome-packagekit which I thought I had already reinstalled. Thank you, 
unfortunately I tend to sidetrack myself since the onset of Oldtimerz. :-[
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