[ale] Fedora 9

[Scott Castaline]

William Witt wrote:
> Geoffrey wrote:
>> Jim Popovitch wrote:
>>   
>>> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Scott Castaline <hscast at charter.net> wrote:
>>>     
>>>> 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.
>>>>       
>>> pup? puplet?   (if so, don't ask me how I found that out)
>>>     
>>
>> That's the update app.  pirut is the software install app on fedora 8. 
>> I'm surprised they would have starting using something else on fedora 9.
>>
>>   
>>> -Jim P.
>>>
>>>     
> I just got done with a whirlwind distro trial (F9, Slack, OpenSUSE) 
> before going back to Ubuntu 8.04 (KDE 4).  Release notes say that they 
> replaced pruit with packagekit.  
> http://www.packagekit.org/pk-using.html says to launch it use 
> gnome-packagekit
> but do yourself a favor and get yumex.
>
> Will
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That's interesting. I used gnome-packagekit and it say "command not 
found" and yet when I use pirut from the CLI, the gui startsup. As far 
as yumex, the last time I used it, I wound up removing a whole load of 
packages when I went to install 1 package. I spent a few days fixing the 
broken system that resulted from that. It dosen't seem to me anyway to 
relate to the CLI commands in yum. I tend to rely upon gui more and more 
as my memory just ain't what it used to be nomore and I can't remember 
all of the options. It gets old going through man pages constantly when 
just poking around a decent gui I can put together what I need.