On 18/04/13 11:49, g wrote:
> On 04/18/2013 03:31 AM, John Pilkington wrote:
> <>
>
>> yumex is available from EPEL.  smart-gui, at ATrpms, gives similar
>> information and I've used it a lot, recently in the 1.4.1 version which
>> I had to build myself.  I'm now running 6.4 with kde-unstable and
>> haven't yet managed to rebuild smart-gui for that.
>
> that drove the nail in real good. i installed this system from a live
> cd and failed to set up the rest of the repos. i knew things where a
> little on the thin side, but i had not realize why.
>
> thank you very much.
>
Coming new(ish) to yumex after smart, I find its control of 
repo-selection unreliable; but smart can get bogged down in dependency 
resolution with eg the Fedora repos and prefers to sort out a few 
packages at a time.  Otherwise kill -9 :-(