[Test-Announce] Fedora 22 Alpha Release Candidate 3 (RC3) Available Now!

[Gavin Flower]

On 08/03/15 08:10, Gavin Flower wrote:
> On 08/03/15 07:56, Joerg Lechner wrote:
>> I don't know how to express correctly in computer English. As I used 
>> YUM previously from Fxx to F21,  for installation of YUM I went
>> to the software tool in Gnome, put into the search line "yum" and 
>> then install. Afterwards there
>> was an icon "YUM" amongst all the other application icons, which are 
>> displayed, when You hit the "Aktivitaeten"
>> Button (F22 German language version), and then the icon at the bottom 
>> there. I could use this simple way to display the yum menue in the 
>> window and in not
>> too complicated cases it was not neccessary to go via command line.
>> In F22 it is not possible even to find YUM in the Gnome Software 
>> Tool, but there is Yum (or Yumex, I don't know the difference) as 
>> command line tool.
>>
>>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Mitteilung-----
>> Von: Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>
>> An: test <test at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>> Verschickt: Sa, 7 Mrz 2015 6:19 pm
>> Betreff: Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 22 Alpha Release Candidate 3 
>> (RC3) Available Now!
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 7 Mar 2015 05:59:37 -0500, Joerg Lechner wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> as I know dnf
>> is also a command line tool, if I don't use a command line tool every 
>> day,
>>> I
>> always have to use the man pages. In don't find a tool with similar 
>> features
>> like YUM,
>>> for none experts in F22. The icon called "Software" in Gnome, has
>> not sufficient features
>>> to do all, what was possible with the "icon" yum.
>> Can
>> you tell a bit more about that icon?
>>
>> What did it do? Yum in package "yum" is a
>> command-line tool, and "dnf" is
>> very similar. Perhaps you refer to "yumex"
>> instead? That's graphical
>> front-end for Yum.
>>
>>> Anyway I can use yum and dnf as
>> command line line tool, as I sometimes did in F21,
>>> but it's more uncomfortable
>> work, compared  to F21 and to MS Windows.
>>
>> If you still know how to use "yum",
>> you can use it to search for package
>> tools other than gnome-software.
> From the command line as root, can  run yum:
> *# yum update
> Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, refresh-packagekit
> No packages marked for update
> # *
>
> I assume you know to use *su -* to get into root from a terminal?
>
> For details on how to run yum, type in *man yum*, either from either a 
> normal user account, or your from root.
>
> I run yum from the command line, as I get better diagnostics and have 
> more control.  One can also modify its config file */etc/yum.conf*, or 
> individual repo's in the directory */etc/yum.repos.d*
>
>
> Cheers,
> Gavin
>
aarghhh!  ignore the asterisks, if any show up.  I tried to format 
things to highlight them, but I noticed when I looked at my posting on 
the list that asterisks had been inserted.  It might be the case that 
you don't see any asterisks! and that it is just my software...

Reread Joerg's posting, then noticed he obviously knew about running yum 
from the command line - oh well!  However, I would still recommend him, 
and others, to use the command line as it provides far better control 
and superior diagnostics (especially when things go wrong)!



Cheers,
Gavin