FC2-3 RPM Package Managers

Athanasios Anastasiou <[email protected]> Wed, 02 Mar 2005 17:24:54 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.configuration
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi All

The question i am about to ask might have come up probably but it is the 
reason i subscribed to this list and i am going to ask anyway :-)

Is there an RPM package manager for Fedora (Core 2 and Core 3) that can 
handle the installation of one isolated RPM (and ofcourse report back 
dependencies etc etc)???

I currently have Fedora Core 2 but i am about to switch to Fedora Core 
3, i use it mainly for developing and some minor office applications...A 
GUI for RPM would really save me some of the trouble.

I was reading about Fedora Core 2 and found out that there is yum and 
apt as package managers...Is that true for Fedora Core 2?

I noticed that the native RPM package manager has changed between FC2 
and FC3, can it handle isolated RPM installs?

Currently, in my FC2, RPMs are not handled "automatically", meaning that 
if i double click on an RPM, KDE does not know how to handle it. If i 
install yum or apt from the RPMs is that taken care automatically or do 
i have to add it?

Since my installation is stable (for the time) i am a bit hessitant to 
experiment a lot with installer packages or a variety of options, so if 
you decide to answer any of my questions please be specific about 
dependencies or things that might go wrong (for any case that you are 
aware anyway)

Thanks in advance.
Athanasios Anastasiou.

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