Michael Mansour wrote: >>Stephen Hawking wrote: >> >>>When I open Add/Remove Applications it asks me for password and then >>>it says that /media/cdrecorder is not a valid installation tree.How >>>can i fix that? >>>Regards, >> >>This program does not work, it never has. It is only installed >>because of dependancies. We believe we can get a patch in that >>removes it without breaking depencies in S.L. 4.2, so that this >>question does not get asked. (You are not the first, and I believe >>you will not be the last) >> >>The prefered way of adding and removing packages is by yum, or you >>could use apt. If you wish a graphical installer, apt has one >>called synaptic. > > > yum also has graphical features if you look hard enough :) > > http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Environment/Tools/GNOME-Interface-for-YUM-3671.shtml > Hmmm ... looks nice, but since it's still at 0.1, I say we'll watch it and see how it progresses. > http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yumex/ > Looks nice. Needs the lates yum (2.4), which requires it's own dependancies. I think my favorite feature of it is the ability to easily add or remove repositories to your list. > http://www.cobind.com/yumgui.html (Dag's repo supplies rpm's for this one) > This actually is in S.L. 3.0.x, but it is no longer supported. So it never went into S.L. 4.x. > Regards, > > Michael. > On the same subject, Fedora/RedHat is working on replacing the add/remove packages with something much better. It's codename is pup, and it's currently in the testing area of fedora. http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC5Future It still has a ways to go, and currently isn't even up to 'up2date''s speed. But I've seen the roadmap for the program. It isn't a throw everything together quickly then smooth out the edges program. It is a 'get this part working really good, then move on to the next part' program. So I believe it will be one of those programs where it 'looks' like nothing until suddenly it just works great. Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/CSS CSI Group __________________________________________________