[sf-lug] Synaptic for Fedora?

[Sameer Verma]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Grant Bowman <grantbow at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some quick google searches using the names of the existing tools on
> both platforms turned up some good guides for people going from one
> type of system to another.  Here is one decent primer for converting
> command equivalents between Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS commands and
> Debian/Ubuntu commands.
>
>     http://daverdave.com/node/97
>
> Roughly Fedora's rpm is like Debian's dpkg.  Fedora's yum is like
> Debian's apt-get and apt-cache.  For GUI users, Package Manager is
> like System...Administration...Synaptic.  I haven't heard of Fedora
> efforts to simplify installation even further as the
> Applications...Ubuntu Software Center is making progress in doing.
>

Hi Grant,

I was looking for a GUI based package manager. Thanks for the
pointers. I am using F11 in the context of OLPC XO 1.5 and they use a
slightly modified menu, so I didn't see the package manager.

cheers,
Sameer

> I believe ease of use is very important in furthering Linux adoption
> by mainstream computer users.  It's hard to use software if you can't
> easily become proficient in using the tools that help find and install
> the software you might need or want.  Getting people trained to
> efficiently use package tools is one of the relatively more complex
> operational issues involved in providing educational sites with the
> confidence they need to search for and install software that's
> available.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Grant
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Michael Shiloh
> <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Isn't that simply rpm then?
>>
>> On 07/30/2010 10:38 PM, Larry Cafiero wrote:
>>>
>>> If you're talking about a package manager (if that's what Synaptic is,
>>> unless I'm mistaken), I believe the Gnome version has something called
>>> Package Manager or gpk-application (?) or something like that. KDE
>>> probably has KPackageManager.
>>>
>>> Of course, you can always use yum install from the command line . . . .
>>>
>>> Larry Cafiero
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Jeff Bragg <jackofnotrades at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:jackofnotrades at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    yumex, according to this <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/yum>.
>>>    I haven't used it personally, though.
>>>
>>>
>>>    On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu
>>>    <mailto:sverma at sfsu.edu>> wrote:
>>>
>>>        Does anyone know if there is anything like Synaptic for Fedora ?
>>>
>>>        cheers,
>>>        Sameer
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