I tried using yum groups. The problem is, yum groups only seem to pick up packages from Fedora proper, not from any other repositories. So I can't get anything from RPM Fusion or the like. And I agree that search is very useful (it's normally how I install specific packages), but it doesn't help if I'm trying to go through all the packages in a list, deciding which ones I could use on my system (I usually do this on a brand new install, which is why reinstalling Fedora 20 brought this up). I used to use Smart Package Manager, which nicely broke down packages by groups, but it's been broken and appears to be abandoned, so it's no good anymore.
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 2:01 AM, Robin Laing <MeSat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I use yumex and I have group installs. At least yum groups.On 2014-10-17 20:12, Kelly Miller wrote:
I've been wondering about this for quite some time, but my recent troubles
with finding a good GUI installer for Fedora 20 has brought it to the
forefront. Why is it that none of the GUI's for yum & dnf support the old
RPM groups? Were they left out of yum and PackageKit or something? And
can someone suggest a good GUI for installing packages? I find both Apper
and Yumex to be lacking in package structure too much to use, in that the
categories don't show all installable packages and to get all the packages,
you have no choice but to show all packages, with no categorization. And
I'm trying to avoid having to either go through the large list of packages
or trying to pull the list of packages I need out of my memory.
Not sure what you are looking for in your groups.
I see that other repositories are included in the group view so
Search is very useful when I am looking for something.
Can you give an example of what you are missing from "Group install?"
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