Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> writes: > On 06/11/2013 03:41 PM, lee wrote: >> + There doesn't seem to be anything like aptitude Debian has that lets >> you view what packages there are, what is installed, etc.. I know >> there's some GUI gnome tool for that --- which, unfortunately, >> doesn't seem to even come close. I'm not using gnome and I forgot >> how this tool is called. It probably won't be helpful anyway. > > What you're looking for is yumex, which isn't Gnome-specific AFAIK. > I'm not sure if it's the right tool for this job, but at least it's > worth looking at. Thank you! I installed and tried it and removed it ... > FWIW, a hung upgrade once left me with no GUI, and enough dupes that > package-cleanup --cleandupes seemed to be hanging as well. What I > did, as root, was to run package-cleanup --dupes and pipe the output > into a text file. Then, I used yum manually to get rid of some of the > dupes. Lather, rinse, repeat as time allowed, until the number of > dupes got small enough for --cleandupes to handle. Then, and only > then, I started getting X working again, on the principle of one thing > at a time. It was either that, or a complete fresh install, and I was > stubborn enough that I decided not to re-install unless I had to. > And, of course, being retired, I had plenty of time to devote to the > exercise. In a production environment, I'd never have considered > spending that much time on repair because replacement would have been > far more cost effective. There seems to be some agreement that upgrades of Fedora have a tendency to go wrong and that it's usually still fixable. That speaks against it and at the same time, it speaks for it. I'll just have to see what happens on the next upgrade. -- Fedora 18? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
