Marco DELMASTRO wrote: > Hi there... > > I was wondering anyone knows if/why the yum update notification applet > (the one displaying an icon on a panel when new updates are available) > has been removed in SL5. And if yes, is anyone is aware of have it > back on a brand new SL5 machine? > Not near an SL5 box at the moment, IIRC its in the yumex-applet package. See what this returns... # rpm -qa | sort -f > ~/rpmqa.log # grep -i rhn-applet ~/rpmqa.log # grep -i yum-applet ~/rpmqa.log # grep -i yumex ~/rpmqa.log # yum search yumex No yumex-applet? Was it removed, renamed or merged with another package in SL5? ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/50/i386/SL/yum-rhn-plugin-0.4.3-1.el5.noarch.rpm See up2date & yumex-applet references in SL4.4... https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/4x/44/limitations https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/4x/44/sl.releasenote.44.i386 See SL5 yum references... (no yumex-applet?) https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/5x/features/added https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/5x/features/changed https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/5x/features/limitations https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/5x/features/ https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/5x/rnotes/ EPEL - RHEL5 CentOS5 - Extras Repository http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/ -HTH Art@JAX
