Experiment: an RPM that shows uninstalled apps in main menu

Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek jakub.rusinek at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 16:47:55 UTC 2008


> > For instance, user knows (from a friend or random webpage) that the 
> > program foo is neat, and tries to start it:
> >  > foo
> >  > Command not found: foo
> >  > This program is available for Fedora but is not currently installed.
> >  > To install this program type (as root): yum install FooPackage
> 
> That'd be nice to have also, and i think is fairly orthogonal to the 
> fedora-apps RPM idea. After all this targets terminal users, while the 
> uninstalled icons target all users, especially those that never use a 
> terminal app (i.e. those for whom the only way to install additional 
> software is with the 'Add/Remove Software' menu entry, aka pirut).

command-not-found if I remember good did that in Ubuntu.

-- 
Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek
http://liviopl.jogger.pl/
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