Gnome RPM

[Tewksbury, Chuck]

imho... from very LIMITED experience.... 

GNOrpm makes it hard to install packages from the CDROM... I havent been
able to fugure that out... 

The few times I have tried to use it, I get errors

the command line "rpm" has worked everytime, with a quick reference to the
man page.



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Chuck Tewksbury
Director of MIS
Harborside Healthcare
617-646-5694
ctewksbury at hbrside.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Burkhardt [mailto:glenn at aoi.ultranet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 9:36 AM
To: Derek Martin
Cc: Tewksbury, Chuck; 'Discuss at Blu.Org'
Subject: Re: Gnome RPM 


> > > does Gnome RPM suck or is it just me?
> > 
> > It sucks.  The Mandrake 'rpmdrake' is much better.
> 
> Very subjective...  ;)

Of course.  Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and all that.

I've found:

1. GnomeRPM doesn't give me the option of installing required packages after
it checks the RPM file I want to install.

2. It's GUI is cumbersome and unintuitive (sorry, another subjective 
judgement!)

3. I can't figure out how to use the search function.

'rpmdrake', on the other hand, has always done what I've wanted with a
minimal
amount of effort.  So we all know which one I use....
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