Comments on: Linux: yum options you may not know exist. http://crazytoon.com/2008/06/16/linux-yum-options-you-may-not-know-exist/ Enterprise level solutions, LAMP, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, Windows, Cache, Optimization Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:21:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Bob Jewell http://crazytoon.com/2008/06/16/linux-yum-options-you-may-not-know-exist/comment-page-1/#comment-782 Bob Jewell Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:20:18 +0000 http://crazytoon.com/?p=85#comment-782 If you've got a FC9 box around, you might enjoy taking a peak at pkcon, which supports yum repositories. pkcon is installed by default, and is what powers the updater icon that lives in your tray if you've got a desktop. (http://www.packagekit.org/) I haven't really had enough opportunity to see if there's anything concretely awesome about it, but it feels very fast, and I like the expanded options for searching. PackageKit Console Interface Subcommands: get-actions get-groups get-filters get-transactions get-time search [name|details|group|file] [data] install [packages|files] remove [package] update refresh resolve [package] get-updates get-depends [package] get-requires [package] get-details [package] get-files [package] get-update-detail [package] get-packages repo-list repo-enable [repo_id] repo-disable [repo_id] repo-set-data [repo_id] [parameter] [value]; what-provides [search] If you’ve got a FC9 box around, you might enjoy taking a peak at pkcon, which supports yum repositories. pkcon is installed by default, and is what powers the updater icon that lives in your tray if you’ve got a desktop. (http://www.packagekit.org/)

I haven’t really had enough opportunity to see if there’s anything concretely awesome about it, but it feels very fast, and I like the expanded options for searching.

PackageKit Console Interface

Subcommands:
get-actions
get-groups
get-filters
get-transactions
get-time
search [name|details|group|file] [data]
install [packages|files]
remove [package]
update
refresh
resolve [package]
get-updates
get-depends [package]
get-requires [package]
get-details [package]
get-files [package]
get-update-detail [package]
get-packages
repo-list
repo-enable [repo_id]
repo-disable [repo_id]
repo-set-data [repo_id] [parameter] [value];
what-provides [search]

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