Hi,

Not sure whether this is a bit out off topic here.

I'm a bit new again into rpm and yum based systems coming from deb-based
systems and with a far away Suse-background and looking for a tool
similar to aptitude or the old yast for easy installing/deinstalling of
a number of packages from command line.

For all that don't know aptitude: I'm looking for a command line tool
which allows to mark a bulk of packages for installing, update of
erasing as well as offering a way to search the index of avaialble
packages as well as keeping care on depedencies. Would it make sense to
give aptitude a try here inside this environment?

Searching the web I found postings back from 2006 but nothing much
interesting more recently so I'm not sure which tools are still under
maintenance or working well. Does anybody of you have a hint for me?

Thanks,
Frank