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Re: yumex
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John Pilkington <[log in to unmask]>
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John Pilkington <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:31:19 +0100
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On 18/04/13 08:28, g wrote:
> greetings.
>
> with yumex not in sl6.3, is there another gui available to look for a
> package content, other than "yum provides"?
>
> my fingers get tired with a lot of typing, which i am not very good at. :-)
>
> tia.
>

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.

John P

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